Reviews

Richard S. Ginell - February 4, 2025

Conductor Susanna Mälkki leads the LA Phil in the great composer’s 2023 trumpet concerto, HUSH.

Andrew Gilbert - February 3, 2025

The Oakland percussionist’s album-release concert at the Freight & Salvage unites the community in music.

Rebecca Wishnia - February 3, 2025

Bryan brings together diverse works from a dozen different contemporary composers who represent the global African diaspora.

Lisa Hirsch - February 3, 2025

There’s a theatrical bent to the two big works on the lineup: Carla Kihlstedt’s 26 Little Deaths and Andy Akiho’s Seven Pillars.

Steven Winn - February 1, 2025

The orchestra’s former music director leads a program of Schubert and Brahms with grace, if occasional shakiness.

Richard S. Ginell - January 28, 2025

Under conductor Eun Sun Kim, the Rachmaninoff-heavy concert also includes composer Nico Muhly’s latest work.

Lisa Hirsch - January 28, 2025

Two of the Bay Area’s premier small ensembles team up for a program that dwells on the netherworld between waking and dreams.

Rebecca Wishnia - January 28, 2025

An intimate concert offers the opportunity to hear a work by Arnold Bax, along with juvenilia by Benjamin Britten and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.

Andrew Gilbert - January 28, 2025

Yang’s trio revisits a groundbreaking work that bridges jazz and classical, Mary Lou Williams’s 1945 Zodiac Suite.

Harlow Robinson - January 28, 2025

Brett Mitchell leads the orchestra congenially, with Inon Barnatan soloing in Florence Price’s Piano Concerto in One Movement.