Features

For Lara Downes the personal is musical, and she’s building her career on connecting audiences to artistic process. And she’s thinking carefully about how music connects to human events.

Trios take over Music at Kohl Mansion, and Stuart Canin is back in the news with The Rifleman's Violin.

The Cypress Quartet musicians are ending their run together, after 20 years. Cellist Jennifer Kloetzel fills in the details.

Seniors are experiencing the health and wellbeing benefits of regular music practice as part of a scientific study on music and aging.

S.F. Symphony hopes for a touchdown with its collaboration with NFL Films, and West Bay Opera gets ready for Onegin.

It’s not your dad’s electronic organ. At 16 tons, Marshall and Ogletree’s International Touring Organ is (barely) portable, but it’s the expanded range of things it can do that is really interesting.

The Harris Guitar Collection at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music offers students a chance to work with different guitars from history.

Cappella SF is embarking on yet another presentation of the "rare and unusual," and iconic artist David Bowie dies.

SFCV recommends some of the big events hitting the Bay Area this spring.

One of opera’s great philanthropists argues for allowing market forces to help opera production escape from "infantile disorder."