Simon Cohen

At Cal Performances, the ambitious player takes in works we normally think of as for the piano.

The tenor and pianist Wenwen Du render Schubert’s radical emotional extremes with total commitment.

The work, now at SF Opera, promises a deep dive into the complicated technologist, but does it weigh his character or just celebrate his legacy?

Igor Levit’s performance of Ferruccio Busoni’s Piano Concerto is a radical and refreshing experience.

Conductor John Nelsons, mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, and collaborators give great performances of Roméo et Juliette and Cléopâtre.

Stranger Love, a monumental new opera by Dylan Mattingly, astonishes in its premiere at the LA Phil.

Jane Glover conducts a concert of works by the two Baroque heavyweights, with mixed results.

The Takács Quartet’s first violinist tracks his own history and those of favorite composers in Distant Melodies: Music in Search of Home.

Composer Gabriel Kahane mixes indie-pop styles and sophisticated orchestral writing in his darkly satiric emergency shelter intake form.

The legacy of American experimental music is what connects the groundbreaking composer and the Bay Area presenter in a lecture-concert at Mills.