A full evening of improvised music makes for challenging and rewarding listening.
Several Icelandic composers and Kaija Saariaho filled out an exciting, if gloomy new-music concert.
Clerestory uses the anniversary of the 19th Amendment to sing a concert of music by female composers.
Invigorating ideas of what opera might be were on display at the fourth WEO Snapshot Festival.
He’s only 21, but the New York–based jazz pianist showed serious artistry in a set at the Black Cat.
Matthew Aucoin more than fulfills his promise as LAO’s first composer-in-residence.
The great viol player leads a program of Baroque Spanish theater music at Cal Performances.
With Giancarlo Guerrero wielding the baton, the Polish orchestra excels in a concert of works by Karol Szymanowski and Witold Lutosławski.
The conductor laureate elicits a nuanced performance of this underperformed gem from the SF Symphony.
The musicians capture the high energy of Beethoven’s early compositions.
