The collaborative work involves L.A.’s recent poet laureate, composer Sarah Hennies, and a women’s whistling group.
Ray has long been one of Los Angeles’ go-to contemporary musicians, and she delights in any piece that stretches her as a performer.
Fayetteville, North Carolina, is the setting for Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels’s Pulitzer Prize-winning opera — and where Raven grew up.
The unpredictable composer and arranger appears on the West Coast with her curiously mixed ensemble, m_unit.
In California for concerts this month, Chan speaks about her path to the podium and the challenges faced by women conductors.
Whether it’s preparing the SFS Chorus or conducting the LA Master Chorale, Wong has a knack for bringing musicians together.
Cheng is one of the great explorers of new music, pushing herself beyond her comfort zone and finding delight in the unexpected.
You still hear the influence of the Great American Songbook, but younger vocalists are taking inspiration and material from other genres, too.
The star violinist and entrepreneur arrives in Walnut Creek to play Wynton Marsalis with the California Symphony.
Crediting her parrot, Lulu, as a collaborator, Reid brings her piece Ambient Bird to Berkeley’s Live Oak Park for the fall equinox.
