Novak named the four movements, played without a break, after devices found in science fiction and portrayed each brilliantly ...

SF Classical Voice reviewed more than 250 performances in 2025! We reached every corner of the Bay Area, north to south, and covered everything from major arts organizations and touring productions to ...

Welcome to SF Classical Voice’s annual roundup of recordings released in 2025 by California-based artists! Our list reaches well beyond classical music — this year’s collection spans orchestral and ...

California is graced with its share of globally admired composers — John Adams, Thomas Adès, John Williams, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Danny Elfman, and hardly least, San Diego’s Anthony Davis. Davis credits ...

Kedrick Armstrong made a memorable subscription-series debut conducting the Oakland Symphony, its chorus, and Pacific Edge Voices in a thematically and musically intense program on Friday. The ...

The Aspen Music Festival and School turns 77 this year. Perched high in the Colorado Rockies in a former silver-mining town at the breathtaking (literally) altitude of nearly 8,000 feet, AMFS has ...

It was a family affair at the opening concert of the New Hollywood String Quartet’s Summer of Angels Chamber Music Festival on Thursday, July 10, in San Marino. A direct descendent of the celebrated ...

It’s a little-known fact that the Founder's Room, the elegant vaulted space in Frank Gehry’s Walt Disney Concert Hall, was originally conceived as a second, more intimately scaled auditorium for the ...

The Turtle Island Quartet (TIQ) has a richly varied history. The string ensemble is known for being openminded in its approach to genre, and has performed works by everyone from Bach to Dizzy ...

As the 25th San Francisco Electronic Music Festival (SFEMF) approaches, one of its founders, the artist Pamela Z, recalled what has happened since the first festival, held in 2000 at the now-defunct ...

Nicholas McGegan leads Kaleidoscope Vocal Ensemble and Cantata Collective in Bach’s rarely heard 1725 St John Passion. With altered opening and closing movements and substituted arias, this version ...

On Oct. 1, four San Francisco jazz venues joined in an unprecedented challenge to fans, with the goal of energizing the city’s greater downtown area. The Jazz Passport initiative is funded by the ...