Music News

Mark MacNamara - April 13, 2016

On the strength of rebounding subscription income, Philharmonia is going all out next season

Mark MacNamara - April 6, 2016

Not every award is worth crowing about, but winning an Avery Fisher Career Grant puts you in pretty rare company as this year’s winners attest.

Janos Gereben - April 5, 2016

Recent works from alumni of the symphony's Young American Composer-in-Residence program will grace each of the 30th-anniversary concerts.

Janos Gereben - April 5, 2016

The opera from composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer explores Nazi persecution at a personal level.

Janos Gereben - April 5, 2016

The orchestra pins its hopes on the New Zealand conductor to lift them to the next level.

Janice Berman - April 1, 2016

It’s not often that a new, full-length ballet with a commissioned score from a top-rank composer makes its appearance, but 2017 will feature one by celebrated choreographer Liam Scarlett.

Mark MacNamara - March 23, 2016

San Jose’s company is slipping in a new work next season, which has been making the rounds of American opera companies.

Mark MacNamara - March 23, 2016

Silicon Valley Ballet may be closing, but the doors of the ballet school opened on Monday as a newly independent entity with about 350 students.

Jeff Kaliss - March 22, 2016

The SF Conservatory joins forces with SF JAZZ for a new Roots, Jazz, and American Music degree program.

Mark MacNamara - March 9, 2016

The festival of contemporary orchestral music has some intriguing premieres to offer for its 2016 events.