Jeff Kaliss

Stephen King’s gloomy, claustrophobic tale, Dolores Claiborne appeals to composer Tobias Picker, for its portrait of an uncompromising woman.

The first recipient of a New Voices joint commission, Zosha di Castri talks about her music and being plucked from graduate school into the limelight.

After successfully rebounding from colon cancer in 2010 and an embolism in July of this year, 72-year-old Plácido Domingo has proven that you can't keep a good tenor down.

Quadruple threat Audra McDonald warms up her extraordinary pipes for opening night at the S.F. Symphony, and talks about her love for educating youth.

From Bach to bluegrass to “salongrass,” Chris Thile plays the mandolin as if there’s no tomorrow.

Young stride pianist Stephanie Trick visits SFJAZZ with a plethora of powerful and pleasurable pieces.

If you’re looking for a musical maverick, look no further than the instrument builder, composer, and theorist Cris Forster. Here’s a tour, with video, of his inventions and his ideas.

Nicola Benedetti was recently voted Classical Brit of the Year, and at only 26, has become one of Scotland’s most wanted exports. But she’s not letting success turn her head.

Genre-bending musical forms invade this year’s Carmel Bach Festival in Monterey, which promises a range of delights.

Michael Feinstein, his marriage newly legitimized, talks about his big-band gig in San Francisco, where he’ll salute the Gershwin brothers in his inimitable style.