Lou Fancher

For these experimental-music pioneers, new music is about ideas, not a collection of electronic gizmos.

The in-demand pianist is set to debut with the New Century Chamber Orchestra this month.

The orchestra’s season opener features a Kevin Puts piece he created with their support when he was an up-and-coming composer.

The expansive festival embraces everything from cassette culture to the hip-hop/noise frontiers of Daveed Diggs’ clipping.

Getting to the core of Cao Xuequin’s epic novel and translating it into opera has been an epic journey in itself for the creative team.

Yo-Yo Ma’s trailblazing ensemble tears it up in concert at UC Berkeley’s Greek Theater.

Being a deaf dancer, says Antoine Hunter, is a two-way mirror in which you are acutely aware of the differences between how you see yourself and how others see you.

The world’s best-known cellist celebrates collaboration in a new film: The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble. He discusses the film with SFCV.

The highly regarded vocal ensemble teams up with innovative director Erika Chong Shuch at Berkeley Rep’s Summer Residency Lab.

The well-curated 2016 program adds voices to the mix of period instruments.