Previews

Much-lauded pianist Inon Barnatan walks on the dark side in his upcoming Atherton recital.

In another sign of the times the 2010 Latin Grammy for Best Classical Album went to Fernando Otero. He's at SFJAZZ this weekend and if you like contemporary Latin American sounds, you'll definitely be pleasantly surprised at the variety of his repertoire.

This weekend the Ives Quartet is playing a quintet, the Brahms F-Minor Piano Quintet to be exact. But what's really exciting is that pianist Gwendolyn Mok is going to play (as she played Ravel last year), on her 19th-century piano, an Erard, the Paris firm that was one of the most highly regarded instrument makers in Europe.

Although the cunning folks at the San Francisco Symphony are billing this concert as “MTT Conducts Mozart and Stravinsky,” the real excitement is going to come from the local premiere of Thomas Adès' Polaris, a co-commission of the SFS, with video by Tal Rosner.

The Khmer Arts Ensemble embraces and enhances the power and beauty of Cambodian art forms.

Today, and continuing over the weekend, the New Century Chamber Orchestra opens its season by welcoming back one of its founders and its first music director, Stuart Canin.

The San Francisco Opera has front-loaded its season, and coming up this week is Renee Fleming's appearance in the title role of Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia.

At the Napa Symphony season opener this week, the sister act Christina and Michelle Naughton play a pair of duo piano concertos, one by Mozart and one by Poulenc.

Everybody gets to have fun with music and other performing arts — for free! — on the UC Berkeley campus.

The self-described Balkan Arabic klezmer-based, original absurdist cabaret ensemble descends on the Bay Area for two sure-to-be-wild shows.