Marianne Lipanovich

Music Director and Conductor Bruno Ferrandis talks with SFCV about the upcoming tour for the Santa Rosa Symphony in Vienna and the difference between the music in isolation in Europe and the intensity of the American symphony sphere.

It turns out the 17th century was a great time for women composers. Magnificat Baroque and their guest soloist, soprano Jennifer Ellis Kampani, are hoping that their upcoming program, Donne Virtuose, will lead listeners to discover the wonderful work created by four of such extraordinary women.

Change has proven to be good for David Daniels, who switched to the highly unlikely vocal category of countertenor as a graduate student. Since, the award-winning singer has performed with opera companies around the world, and was the first countertenor to give a solo recital in the main auditorium of Carnegie Hall. He spoke to SFCV about his career and hobbies.

Celebrate the New Year with the S.F. Chamber Orchestra, and you’ll also have a chance to see local and internationally acclaimed cellist Nathan Chan before he leaves for Columbia University.

Enjoy a musical cornucopia, and do some good, as well when you join San Francisco pianist, composer, and conductor Stephen Prutsman for “Bach and Forth,” a look at what the works from the composer whom Prutsman considers “the greatest Western composer of all time.”

Acclaimed cellist Tanya Tomkins is equally at home with early music, the classics, and contemporary compositions, but on the weekend of Nov. 19, it’s the early music and instrument that will be in the limelight.

For the past seven years, Bay Area audiences have been benefiting from Kathryn Gould’s Magnum Opus commissioning project as new orchestral works are premiered here. The Marin Symphony will perform the premiere of (not) The Shadow by one of today’s best composers, Avner Dorman.

Three-hundred-plus years is a long time to wait for a second performance, especially if the work in question is, according to Warren Stewart, director of Magnificat Baroque, “an exceptional piece” from a time when English opera was flourishing. The good news is that the upcoming performances of John Blow’s Venus and Adonis (2nd version) vest-pocket opera should prove it was well worth the wait.

San José’s Le Petit Trianon Theatre is the venue for pianist Joel Fan’s concert on Saturday, Sept. 11. If you don’t know Fan’s work, he’s an award-winning performer who effortlessly plays compositions ranging from the traditional to the modern. Here he talks with SFCV about everything from Harvard and the Silk Road Ensemble to jazz and race-cars.

Acclaimed cellist Zuill Bailey talks with SFCV about his love-at-first crush with the cello, doing what he loves for a living in El Paso and Alaska, his passion for musical outreach programs, and working on the television series Oz.