Chamber Music

Listeners can expect to hear a variety of styles from the classical
repertoire to a fusion of genres including American jazz and Irish
idioms.

The Afiara String Quartet balances a lively interest in new works with deep insight into core classical repertoire.

This most sensitive artist presents Schubert’s emotionally chilling,
potentially cathartic Winterreise (Winter journey).

Bay Area chamber music aficionados flock to the Cal Performances concerts of this exceptional ensemble.

Star violinist Elizabeth Blumenstock, in flight, doesn’t alight anywhere until she’s done, and she generally dazzles you before she deigns to perch on the smallest twig.

Celebrate Chanukah with Ben Brussell’s high-energy klezmer band. Klezmer is a style of folk music from the Ashkenazic Jews in Eastern Europe.

Most string quintets, other than Schubert's, don't get played often. The San Francisco Symphony Chamber Musicians have the personnel to do it.

Although he’s recorded the Christmas repertoire before, most of us haven’t had the chance to witness him delivering it live, and it’ll be bound to raise goose bumps, regardless of the weather.

The Uruguayan six-string virtuoso masterfully interprets music from Bach to contemporary guitar.

The New EsterházyQuartet, having run out of Haydn a couple years back, is focusing now on his contemporaries and pupils. November’s set includes a Haydn quartet, a Beethoven quartet (the formidably dark Opus 95), and quartets by Anton Reicha and Nicolas Zmeskall.