Chamber Music

The composer enters his ninth decade with new ideas and fresh energy for creating, teaching, and performing.

After playing second fiddle to text on Lang’s new piece, cellist Maya Beiser shines on his earlier world to come.

First, there was Opera on Tap, now there is “Bach and Brew” a homey little affair coming to a San Francisco brewery in September.

New Piano Collective’s second inaugural program ranged from the sublime to the silly.

Two commissions honor Marin Alsop, the festivals founder and guiding light.

Recent works by Christopher Rouse and James MacMillan highlight the 2016 Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music’s opening concert.

Alexander Sitkovetsky and Wu Qian shine on a program spanning centuries of musical expression.

Lesser-known composers took center stage at Music@Menlo, where real masterworks by Erno Dohnányi and Anton Arensky were shadowed by early works from Mahler and Shostakovich.

A collaborative song cycle explores the intersection of photography and music.

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.