Previews

Youthful winners of an artists’ competition take to their instruments at the Mondavi Center in Davis.

Cellist Matt Haimovitz and pianist Christopher O'Riley pair up in a genre-blurring, sure-to-surprise performance in a San Francisco club.

Celebrate Chanukah with Ben Brussell’s high-energy klezmer band. Klezmer is a style of folk music from the Ashkenazic Jews in Eastern Europe.

The Golden Bough trio has been performing Celtic music for 30 years, has made 20 albums (two of which are Christmas collections), and has performed their Christmas show to the delight of audiences, for many years.

A musical for the youngest set, based on the beloved story by Dr. Seuss and set to the music of Mel Marvin and Albert Hague. The characters look like they could live in your toy box.

Want to know the secrets of Olivier Messiaen’s music? Ask organist Jonathan Dimmock, who plays one of the composer’s greatest works this month.

Most string quintets, other than Schubert's, don't get played often. The San Francisco Symphony Chamber Musicians have the personnel to do it.

Although he’s recorded the Christmas repertoire before, most of us haven’t had the chance to witness him delivering it live, and it’ll be bound to raise goose bumps, regardless of the weather.

Saint Michael Trio is running the gamut of 250 years of trio music, including jazz, rock, and blues. In 75 minutes. That's got to be more entertaining than your average chamber concert or (especially) a music history lecture.

The Uruguayan six-string virtuoso masterfully interprets music from Bach to contemporary guitar.