Michelle Dulak Thomson

Michelle Dulak Thomson is a violinist and violist who has written about music for Strings, Stagebill, Early Music America, and The New York Times.

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Michelle Dulak Thomson - January 2, 2012

It would take something much larger than a recession to stop great chamber music ensembles from performing in the Bay Area. Below are a few of the best recitals to come in the next few months.

Michelle Dulak Thomson - December 13, 2011

An artist who defies the stereotype: To play the violin and then the viola? James Ehnes sounds brilliant on both.

Michelle Dulak Thomson - November 27, 2011

Anyone who’s followed this quirky (and preposterously skilled) ensemble for any time at all knows that it’s ill-inclined to sit still, and that when it does move, it’s nearly always in a startling direction.

Michelle Dulak Thomson - November 22, 2011

Anonymous 4 sings marvelously varied selections from 13th- and early 14th-century treasure-troves.

Michelle Dulak Thomson - November 16, 2011

The New EsterházyQuartet, having run out of Haydn a couple years back, is focusing now on his contemporaries and pupils. November’s set includes a Haydn quartet, a Beethoven quartet (the formidably dark Opus 95), and quartets by Anton Reicha and Nicolas Zmeskall.

Michelle Dulak Thomson - October 25, 2011

Immaculate playing, with eloquence in all the right places, distinguishes violinist Charlie Siem’s latest CD.

Michelle Dulak Thomson - October 21, 2011

Should anyone not be tired of Farinelli’s repertoire after the Philharmonia Baroque set, here is Philippe Jaroussky, among the most recent of the countertenor superstars, singing Handel and Vivaldi arias with Jeannette Sorrell’s Cleveland-based ensemble Apollo’s Fire.

Michelle Dulak Thomson - October 17, 2011

Ensemble Caprice’s program for the San Francisco Early Music Society focuses on the Gypsies, surveying three centuries’ worth of Gypsy-influenced “classical” music.

Michelle Dulak Thomson - October 11, 2011

With violinist Elizabeth Blumenstock’s brilliant ornamentation, Philharmonic Baroque Orchestra outdoes itself on its journey through Four Seasons.

Michelle Dulak Thomson - September 16, 2011

Dance music from Rameau’s operas never bores, and always glitters. Concert des Nations plays its heart out for conductor Jordi Savall in these excerpts.