Artist Spotlight

These lively Q&A's aim to shed light on the personalities behind the music. Get to know your favorite artists...or discover someone new!


Artist Spotlight
August 17, 2012

Striving to clue audiences in on the music they’re hearing, pianist and teacher Jeffrey Sykes believes in taking new paths to enhance their understanding.

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Artist Spotlight
August 7, 2012

Del Sol Quartet’s violist, Charlton Lee, looks forward to appearing at the Cabrillo Festival, and reflects on the challenge of playing while also vocalizing.

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Artist Spotlight
July 18, 2012

Although his solo careers drew him out of the Romero Guitar Quartet he’d grown up with, the lively, loquacious Angel Romero has retained his vital family connections.

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Artist Spotlight
July 18, 2012

An inspiring voice teacher speaks of the challenges and thrills he experiences with his opera-stars-to-be, at the Merola and Adler programs of S.F. Opera.

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Artist Spotlight
July 11, 2012

One of Finland’s best young pianists explores freedom and order in his programs at the 2012 Music@Menlo Festival.

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Artist Spotlight
July 4, 2012

One of the greatest clarinetists of our time reflects on his very full life and projects for the future.

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Artist Spotlight
June 27, 2012

Countertenor Robin Blaze continues to set off vocal fireworks in his bravura performances of oratorio and Bach.

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Artist Spotlight
June 20, 2012

Duo-pianists Greg Anderson and Elizabeth Joy Roe gleefully pursue wide-ranging interests as they promote and perform classical music in its many guises.

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Artist Spotlight
June 13, 2012

Michelle DeYoung returns to San Francisco to sing a favorite role — Judith, wife of Bluebeard, who learns some things she might in retrospect rather not have in Béla Bartók's early opera Duke Bluebeard's Castle.

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Artist Spotlight
June 6, 2012

Swedish virtuoso Martin Fröst not only swings on the clarinet, he sometimes dances. Plus, he once got to play Benny Goodman’s own licorice stick.

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