Composer Andy Akiho evokes computers instead of using them in his piano quintet. Maybe that’s the secret of his success.

Solid performances highlight a streamlined production that emphasizes contemporary themes in the Weimar-era opera.

In Hunger Strike, composer and vocalist Amy X Neuburg turns our attention to the conditions of solitary confinement.

The extraordinary music Monk creates, largely with her own voice, still has the power to amaze, as a recital drawn from her long career showed.

Messiaen asks the orchestra to move us toward the infinite in Des Canyons aux étoiles.

The early music ensemble performed “songs, dances, and fancies” with flair at Palo Alto’s First Presbyterian Church.

Composer Amy Beth Kirsten has provided Volti with the right kind of challenge: one that takes the audience on an electrifying journey.

A wide-ranging program jumped from percussion to Debussy’s harp concerto to Bernstein’s Serenade (after Plato’s Symposium).

What happens when indeterminate music’s “happy accidents” are not so accidental?