Matthew Cmiel

The S.F. Contemporary Music Players wrap up its season with a range of challenging works, both new and old, brilliant and quietly glowing.

Get plugged in and turned on at Switchboard’s annual genre-busting music fest.

Sound worlds are fervently explored at the 17th iteration of a new-music festival.

A ground-breaking new-music ensemble is still epically cool, releasing its first CD set in four years.

Although benefitting from the usual excellent performance by eighth blackbird, Rinde Eckert and Steve Mackey’s Slide is still uninvolving.

Concerts around the Bay Area often achieve an incredibly high quality. We should go to more of them, to experience things outside our comfort zone.

No joke: At a concert showcasing new music for viola, an instrument was shattered — but not the spirits of the musicians or most of the audience.

Julia Wolfe's latest CD Cruel Sister is yet another example of how spellbinding and consistently engaging the composer is, this time in works fueled by a powerful story.

Jennifer Koh and Anssi Karttunen joined the brilliant Finnish composer Magnus Lindberg in piano trios, and duos, that knocked everybody’s socks off.

Provocative as usual, the Del Sol Quartet jumps cultures, continents, and even musical temperaments in its brilliant recital.