New Music

Every year, Sarah Cahill and New Music Bay Area’s Garden of Memory concert offers a special way to celebrate summer.

You put on your explorer hat, experience something that you may not be fully prepared for, and have a reaction. That’s what new music is all about.

Cauvin is a technical wizard, of course, but
one who seems entranced by the possibilities that opens for him.

Zakir Hussain delivers brilliant performances that have established him as a national treasure in his native India.

This is an engaging quartet whose youthful energy comes across on stage.

Voices of Music is one of the fastest-rising of the Bay Area’s huge number of early music groups.

The Afiara String Quartet balances a lively interest in new works with deep insight into core classical repertoire.

Carmel’s new Days and Nights Festival embraces the idea of repetition, with brilliantly played works by founder Philip Glass, Schubert, and Shostakovich

Philip Glass has got a pick-up band of all stars ready for his inaugural Days and Nights Festival in Carmel Valley. The first weekend features Glass' compositions paired with works by Franz Schubert and Dmitri Shostakovich. Personally, if forced to pick one, I'd opt for Saturday night at Hidden Valley, with Glass' String Quartet No. 5 paired with Schubert's evergreen Piano Trio in B-Flat, D. 898.

Cabrillo wraps up its season with new works that surprise, delight, and sometimes frustrate.