New Music

We were all grateful for Esa-Pekka Salonen’s tenure as music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. But we’re even happier to see him creating works like this brilliant Violin Concerto.

At Old First Concerts, composer David del Trediciand and duo pianist comrade Marc Peloquin offer the composer’s own Gymnopedies, Mandango, and Carioca Boy.

For the second week of Music in the Vineyards, up in Napa, the Pacifica Quartet takes over for the Borromeo.

If you were to take a chance on a concert this weekend, or get on one waiting list, or if there were a concert worth standing outside with a really winning smile and a sign pleading for spares this weekend, this is the one.

It’s the 100th anniversary of John Cage’s birth, and a very few organizations are celebrating with retrospectives of the work of this challenging, odd composer. The festival with the most to offer is the one by sfSound at Old First Concerts.

By now, if you haven’t heard of Classical Revolution, the chamber music collective that specializes in bringing classical music to local neighborhood venues, you’re behind the times.

Every year, Sarah Cahill and New Music Bay Area’s Garden of Memory concert offers a special way to celebrate summer.

You put on your explorer hat, experience something that you may not be fully prepared for, and have a reaction. That’s what new music is all about.

Cauvin is a technical wizard, of course, but
one who seems entranced by the possibilities that opens for him.

Zakir Hussain delivers brilliant performances that have established him as a national treasure in his native India.