Reviews

One of this year’s birthday composers, C.P.E. Bach (born 1714), was the inspiration for Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra’s performance.

The Chinese New Year concert at S.F. Symphony celebrates with music, fanfare, an illuminated dragon, and a full house providing a homecoming welcome to Alina Ming Kobialka.

Aszure Barton’s 2012 creation for seven gifted dancers — six men, one woman, her co-collaborators, comes to San Francisco Performances.

Brian Asawa's Bay Area is return is welcoming, strong, and expressive.

An impressive performance by the Berkeley Symphony showcases a singular achievement by Samuel Carl Adams with his new concerto, one for the record books.

The S.F. Symphony concert featuring Bringuier and Grimaud is perfectly presented in almost every way, even with a program including a hulking Brahms concerto.

As part of the S.F. Symphony Great Performers Series, Kremerata Baltica stops by on its six-city tour promoting a release of some of Weinberg’s orchestral and chamber works.

A concert by the LCCE is filled with all kinds of play and 'some serious fun.'

Trio Cavatina and Samuel Rhodes combined as a quartet for fine music-making at Music at Kohl Mansion in Burlingame.

The poetic and insightful pianist Vadym Kholodenko delights listeners in the South Bay with works by Nicolai Medtner, Chopin, and Brahms.