New Music

Niels Swinkels - April 15, 2015

French composer Philippe Hersant’s Der Gestirnte Himmel gets its world premiere with the Bay Area-based quartet.

Joe Cadagin - April 7, 2015

The S.F. Contemporary Music Players' season-long series of ten commissioned works reflecting on the human condition comes to an inspired close.

Zoe Madonna - March 27, 2015

The New York Philharmonic premieres composer John Adams’ new piece.

Zoe Madonna - March 26, 2015

The difficult-to-define ensemble turns out an electrifying performance.

Giacomo Fiore - March 18, 2015

The new music dynamo continues its anniversary season by focusing on the legacies of local composers.

Giacomo Fiore - March 14, 2015

As a sampling of Switchboard’s genre-blurring monthly “new music” series, the lineup for the March edition in the Tenderloin was perfectly eclectic.

Giacomo Fiore - March 10, 2015

The new music festival brought back artists from its previous 20 years, all of them impressively creative still.

Giacomo Fiore - March 4, 2015

Three pianists, three hours, and 20 Philip Glass Études equal one riveting event.

Jessica Balik - February 23, 2015

In the third installment of a year-long project, the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players offered two excellent premieres inspired by death and loss.

Giacomo Fiore - February 15, 2015

Despite wrinkles in the format, the Symphony's hip new series continues to impress.