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
January 10, 2012
Keeping busy as violinist, violist, conductor, and teacher, 63-year-old Pinchas Zukerman has plenty to say about what he’s learned ... and what’s to come.
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January 9, 2012
A Grammy-nominated pianist reflects on her youthful exposure to great festival music, her recent tours, and her venturesome repertoire.
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December 14, 2011
Daniel Pollack has fulfilled endless requests to return to perform in Russia, where he and Van Cliburn triumphed in the first-ever Tchaikovsky Piano Competition, 53 years ago.
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December 6, 2011
The siren songstress of '60s social causes, home for the holidays in Woodside, joins Maestro Michael Morgan for the Oakland East Bay Symphony's annual celebration.
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November 29, 2011
Leila Josefowicz talks with SFCV prior to performing a work that Esa-Pekka Salonen wrote for her and will conduct at the S.F. Symphony. To her it, "is a dream that became true. It’s the biggest sense of purpose an instrument can have."
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November 28, 2011
The acclaimed composer/conductor reflects on balancing his life-after-the-L.A.-Phil with time for creating, for leading performers, and for enjoying family life.
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November 22, 2011
Four years on at the helm of the New Century Chamber Orchestra, its “fearless leader” reflects on her brilliant charges, and the challenges ahead.
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November 11, 2011
The multitalented bass-baritone preps for the physical and emotional demands of his first Bay Area recital, with songs ranging from gloomy to soulful and intense.
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November 4, 2011
The Brazilian/Polish baritone is melting hearts on opera stages, on Broadway, and in cabarets.
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November 4, 2011
Director Peter Sellars, now 54, can still be occasionally controversial, but as he explains in this interview, provocation is at the heart of his conception of theater. Here is insight on the mix of arts and politics.
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