New Music

Michael Zwiebach - July 19, 2013

The Cabrillo Festival opens with its usual bang, behind the powerhouse Christopher Rouse whose vibrant, propulsive (and loud) music is made for opening festivals.

Michael Zwiebach - July 11, 2013

Sometimes it’s good to venture out to the boundaries, find out what’s going on on the wild side of music. The annual Outsound Festival of experimental and improvisational music is as good a time as any to do this exploration. 

Michael Zwiebach - June 3, 2013

The latest concert of the young, well-received duo ZOFO features music from several space-age composers and, of course, excursions to Gustav Holst’s The Planets

Michael Zwiebach - April 30, 2013

Eos Ensemble, made up of members of the San Francisco Opera and Ballet Orchestras, celebrates their 10th anniversary with a Beethoven perennial, the Septet and Stravinsky’s laconic, darkly humorous Soldier’s Tale.

Michael Zwiebach - January 30, 2013

The Calder Quartet, which formed at the Thornton School at USC and then continued training at Colburn School in Los Angeles, has been seen frequently in the Bay Area over the past few years. 

Michael Zwiebach - November 28, 2012

Magen Solomon’s San Francisco Choral Artists, having justreceived a favorable review in Fanfare for their recent With Strings Attached CD, should makeanyone’s shortlist of choral concerts to attend.

Lisa Hirsch - October 28, 2012

While it’s hard to explain the artistic alchemy that makes Robert Wilson and Philip Glass’s opera a success, it is surprisingly entertaining in the theater.

Michelle Dulak Thomson - October 26, 2012

We were all grateful for Esa-Pekka Salonen’s tenure as music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. But we’re even happier to see him creating works like this brilliant Violin Concerto.

Michael Zwiebach - September 13, 2012

At Old First Concerts, composer David del Trediciand and duo pianist comrade Marc Peloquin offer the composer’s own Gymnopedies, Mandango, and Carioca Boy.

Michael Zwiebach - August 9, 2012

For the second week of Music in the Vineyards, up in Napa, the Pacifica Quartet takes over for the Borromeo.