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The three students played together for only a year before taking gold at the national chamber music competition.

The all-American program includes William Grant Still’s First Symphony and Peter Lieberson’s stirring Neruda Songs.

Giddens will bring musicians she has long worked with, plus more details to be announced.

The dancer/choreographer talks about the American Modern Opera Company and their collective curation of this year’s Ojai Music Festival.

Giustino transcends time and place in James Darrah’s new production for Long Beach Opera.

A lively concert of 20th-century Italian chamber music focuses on works by Ferruccio Busoni and Luciano Berio.

Reimagined classics, local ensembles, and visiting orchestras make up the presenter’s classical music series.

Ellen Reid’s Floodplain gets its long-awaited world premiere in a lush concert that also includes favorites from Brahms and Beethoven.

Peter Wing Healey’s opera takes inspiration from Jane Jacobs’s ideas about city-building, a Shinto myth, and even Marie Antoinette’s fabled oak.

The downhome diva talks with SFCV about the challenges of mastering the title role in Verdi’s timeless opera and why it’s still relevant today.