Brad Sommer @somebsphotos. What a whopping night of fun. Sammy Rae & The Friends performed at The Castro Theatre in San ...

Bing Wang, who joined the Los Angeles Philharmonic as associate concertmaster in 1994, didn’t choose the violin so much as the violin chose her. Her father was a first violinist with the Shanghai ...

A career in music was “inevitable” for 31-year-old cellist Gabriel Cabezas. He started on the cello at the tender age of 4, dutifully learning all the Suzuki Method staples, like “Go Tell Aunt Rhody” ...

Five emerging composers premiere new works in an immersive, interactive afternoon of music with Pacific Chamber Orchestra’s 6th annual Winning Scores. Hear PCO’s exceptional musicians perform, then ...

Before every San Francisco Symphony concert, you’ll see a black-clad figure distributing folders on the musicians’ stands. Most of the time, that’s Margo Kieser, the orchestra’s principal librarian ...

At age 83, John Harbison has earned the right to indulge in a little nostalgia. So it is not surprising that among the veteran composer’s current projects is a concerto for an instrument he played in ...

The tulle skirts associated with Romantic-era ballet were introduced in “The Ballet of the Nuns” in Act III of Meyerbeer’s opera Robert le diable, which premiered at the Paris Opèra in 1831. Marie ...

In what’s become an annual tradition at SF Classical Voice, we once again asked you, the readers, to sound off about the best performers and performances of the past season. As always, the Audience ...

The Holy Liftoff is not so much a fixed work as a loosely strung series of short, continuously played compositions that are meant to be open-ended. The flutist and entrepreneur Claire Chase has made ...

Vladimir Horowitz (1903–1989) was at once one of the most poetic and one of the showiest pianists of the 20th century. His superhuman finger speed, his bombastic fortissimos, and his (not occasional) ...

The San Francisco Symphony’s monthlong holiday schedule has reliable featured favorites and a couple of surprises. Here are the highlights: “A Merry-Achi Christmas” (Nov. 30) — José Hernández leads ...

Jon Batiste’s appearance at The Greek Theatre in Berkeley was a religious experience. Batiste’s Berkeley outing on Saturday evening was as musically globetrotting as he is, including Brazilian samba, ...