Music News

Jenny Bilfield, formerly chief of Stanford Lively Arts and now head of the Washington Performing Arts Center is making her mark with an exciting new festival set for 2017.

If you want to get tickets for Cecilia Bartoli’s return to Cal Performances this spring, limber up your dialing finger now.

Finally, the next Jake Heggie opera is announced: a humane comedy about art and the sacrifices we make for it.

More chamber music headliners coming to the Bay Area, courtesy of Chamber Music San Francisco.

The teaching of the great Indian classical musician has been preserved on tape and is now going to be available to the public.

Dylan Mattingly, local product and fast-rising composer, talks about the independent

film he has just scored.

Mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe was just in town, for a truth-in-packaging recording at the electronically enhanced Berkeley’s Meyer Sound.

Read it here first, a report on an ongoing series of punchy, flashily illustrated eight-minute programs titled Scandalous Overtures.

Highly regarded contemporary music performers from around the country gather to talk, perform, and network at a three-day “grass roots” conference/ festival.