San Francisco

Three local vineyards suggest flights of their finest to go along with opera selections sung by local luminaries.

The JACK Quartet roams the sonic outback on two meditative quartets from the Alaskan composer.

The 50-year-old organization establishes a new honor for pathbreaking American contributions to the art form.

Suzanne Turley’s contributions to San Francisco’s cultural life were immeasurable.

SFSU professor Hafez Modirzadeh proposes a fresh, far-ranging agenda for the school’s music curriculum.

The saxophonist/composer’s jazzy soundscape for the Michelle Obama documentary gets a full-blooded rendition that benefits from the orchestral treatment.

The youthful pair give robust, fully committed readings of sonatas from Rachmaninoff and Barber.

The filmed production finds the company continuing its intrepid ways.

Music Academy of the West students will benefit from close connection to the famous producing organization next summer.

Gavin Bryars’s haunting tone poem about the last moments of the doomed ship gets a fresh interpretation by this up-and-coming ensemble.