Music Links and Resources

SFCV tracks hundreds of classical music performers and presenters throughout the Bay Area and beyond in order to bring you the most notable concerts to see and read about. Following are ensembles, institutions, and sites we follow. To let us know about sites we've missed, please e-mail editor@sfcv.org. Click below to skip to the topics that interest you, listed in alphabetical order.

Chamber Ensembles


Afiara String Quartet
Alexander String Quartet
Arlekin String Quartet
Bay Brass
California Quartet
Chamber Music Sundaes
Citywinds
Cypress String Quartet
Del Sol String Quartet
Gold Coast Chamber Players
Ives Quartet
Kronos Quartet
Laurel Ensemble
Left Coast Chamber Ensemble
Luna Nova Quartet
Luna Trio
Martha and Monica
New Esterhazy Quartet
New Pacific Trio
Novello Quartet
Oakland Chamber Ensemble
Quartet San Francisco
St. Lawrence String Quartet
San Francisco Guitar Quartet
Sonos Handbell Ensemble
Sounds New

Choruses


The greater Bay Area is lucky enough to have hundreds of choruses of all shapes and sizes. We can't list all of them, unfortunately. Below are groups that SFCV has covered. A more complete list of Bay Area choruses, including many community choruses, church choruses, and choruses at academic institutions, may be found at the Bay Area Choral Directory.

American Bach Choir
Artists' Vocal Ensemble (AVE)
Berkeley Community Chorus
California Bach Society
Cantabile
Chanticleer
Choralis
The Choral Project
Chora Nova
Clerestory
Contra Costa Chorale
Coro Hispano de San Francisco
Creative Voices
Haydn Singers
Josquin Singers/Bay Area Classical Harmonies
Kitka
La Peña Community Chorus
Lesbian and Gay Chorus of San Francisco
Masterworks Chorale
Oakland Symphony Chorus
Pacific Collegium
Pacific Mozart Ensemble
Philharmonia Chorale
Sacred and Profane
Sanford Dole Ensemble
San Francisco Bach Choir
San Francisco Bay Area Chamber Choir
San Francisco Choral Artists
San Francisco Choral Society
San Francisco Concert Chorale
San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus
San Francisco Lyric Chorus
San Francisco Renaissance Voices
SFSU Chamber Singers
San Francisco Symphony Chorus
Soli Deo Gloria
UC Alumni Chorus
UC Berkeley Chamber Chorus
Voci
Voices of Musica Sacra
Volti
Women's Antique Vocal Ensemble (WAVE)
WomenSing

Concert Presenters


Avedis Chamber Music Series
Berkeley Chamber Performances
BluePrint New Music Series
Cal Performances
Carmel Music Society
Chamber Music San Francisco
Chamber Music Sundaes
Chancellor's Concert Series, UCSF
Classical at the Freight
Congregation Emanu-El
Four Seasons Concerts
Grace Cathedral Concerts
Great Performers at Davies
Hillside Club Concerts
Live Oak Concerts
Morrison Artists Series
Music at Kohl
Music at the San Francisco Jewish Community Center
Music on the Hill
Music Sources
Napa Valley Opera House
Noe Valley Chamber Music
Old First Concerts
Le Petit Trianon Theatre
San Francisco Early Music Society
San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music
San Francisco Performances
Schwabacher Debut Recital Series
sfSoundSeries
Seventh Avenue Performances
Stanford Lively Arts
Steinway Society
Trinity Chamber Concerts

Contemporary Music Organizations


ADORNO Ensemble
BluePrint New Music Series
Center for New Music and Audio Technologies, UC Berkeley
Composers Inc.
Earplay
Empyrean Ensemble
Ensemble Parallèle
Garden of Memory
Kronos Quartet
Left Coast Chamber Ensemble
New Music Works
Other Minds
Paul Dresher Ensemble
San Francisco Contemporary Music Players
sfSoundSeries & sfSoundGroup

Early Music Ensembles


Albany Consort
American Bach Soloists
American Baroque
American Recorder Orchestra of the West
Artaria Quartet
Baroque Etcetera
Bimbetta
East Bay Recorder Society
Flauti Diversi
La Monica Ensemble
La Riche & Co.
Magnificat
Mid-Peninsula Recorder Orchestra
Monterey Bay Recorder Society
Musica Pacifica
Music of the Spheres
Music's Recreation
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra
San Francisco Early Music Society Affiliates
The Whole Noyse

Festivals


Berkeley Festival and Exhibition
Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music
California Music Festival
California Summer Music
Carmel Bach Festival
Festival del Sole
Green Music Festival
Mendocino Music Festival
Menuhin Chamber Music Festival and Seminars
Midsummer Mozart Festival
Music Academy of the West Summer Festival
Music@Menlo
Music in the Vineyards
Ojai Music Festival
San Francisco Electronic Music Festival
San Francisco Song Festival
San Francisco Tape Music Festival
Santa Cruz Baroque Festival
Stern Grove Festival

Music Departments and Conservatories


Cal State University East Bay (Hayward)
California Summer Music
Community Music Center and Community Music Center Orchestra
College of Marin
Holy Names University
Jarvis Conservatory
Mills College
Notre Dame de Namur University
San Francisco City College
San Francisco Conservatory of Music
San Francisco State University School of Music and Dance
San Jose State University
Stanford University
Stanford University Ensembles
University of California at Berkeley
Center for New Music and Audio Technologies, UC Berkeley
University of California at Davis
University of California at Santa Cruz

Opera Companies


Bay Shore Lyric Opera
Berkeley Opera
Cinnabar Theater
City Concert Opera Orchestra
Festival Opera
Goat Hall Productions
Golden Gate Opera
Lamplighters Music Theatre
Livermore Valley Opera
Lyric Theatre of San Jose
Martinez Opera
Merola Opera Program
Mission City Opera
North Bay Opera
Oakland Lyric Opera
Oakland Opera Theater
Opera San José
Peninsula Teen Opera
Pocket Opera
Sacramento Opera
San Francisco Lyric Opera
San Francisco Opera
San Francisco Opera Center
Sonoma City Opera
Stanford Savoyards
West Bay Opera
Zarzuela at Jarvis Conservatory

Orchestras


Asiatic Philharmonia Society
Berkeley Symphony Orchestra
California Symphony
Fremont Symphony Orchestra
Marin Symphony
Master Sinfonia Chamber Orchestra
Modesto Symphony Orchestra
Monterey Symphony
Napa Valley Symphony
New Century Chamber Orchestra
Pacific Chamber Symphony
Peninsula Symphony
Oakland East Bay Symphony
Pacific Chamber Symphony
Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra
Palo Alto Philharmonic
Redwood Symphony
Sacramento Philharmonic
San Francisco Camerata
San Francisco Chamber Orchestra
San Francisco Sinfonietta
San Francisco Symphony
San Jose Chamber Orchestra
Santa Cruz County Symphony
Santa Rosa Symphony
Symphony Silicon Valley
Vallejo Symphony Orchestra

Other Classical Music Sites of Note


A Lot of Night Music (Alan Rich, L.A. Weekly)
American Liszt Society
American Composers Forum, S.F. Bay Area Chapter
Andante
Arts and Letters Daily
ArtsJournal
Artsopolis
Arts SF
Chicago Classical Music
Classical.net
Classical Domain (New York City)
Classical New Jersey Society
Classical Voice of New England
Classical Voice of North Carolina
Iron Tongue of Midnight
Music in Cincinnati
Cadenza
Classical.net
Gramophone
Humanities West
KZSU Links Page
Musical America
MusicWeb International
MusiClassical.com
NewMusicBox
North Bay Classical Music

On a Pacific Aisle
Opera-L
Opera West
Operacast
PlaybillArts.com
The Rest Is Noise
ResMusica (Paris, France)
San Diego Classical Music
Greg Sandow on the Future of Classical Music
Strings Magazine
Wagner Society of Northern California

Western U.S.

Aspen Music Festival
Concord Ensemble, Los Angeles
Music Academy of the West
Music in the Mountains
Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra
Ojai Music Festival
San Luis Obispo Mozart Festival
Sundays Live: Chamber Music at Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Youth Music

Bay Area Little Symphony
Berkeley Youth Orchestra
California Youth Symphony
Cazadero Music Camp
Crystal Children's Choir
Contra Costa Children's Chorus
Danville Girls Chorus
Fremont Youth Symphony Orchestra
Golden Gate Philharmonic
Junior Bach Festival
Kairos Youth Choir
Marin Children's Chorus
Pacific Boychoir
Peninsula Girls Chorus
Piedmont Choirs
Ragazzi Boys Chorus
Sacramento Youth Symphony
San Domenico Music Conservatory
San Francisco Girls Chorus
San Francisco Boys Chorus
San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra
San Jose Youth Symphony
Young People's Chamber Orchestra