Michael Zwiebach

Michael Zwiebach is the senior editor/content manager for SFCV. He assigns all articles and content, manages the writing staff, and does editing. A member of SFCV from the beginning, Michael holds a Ph.D. in music history from the University of California, Berkeley.

Articles By This Author

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Garden of Memory

Michael Zwiebach - June 9, 2009
Chapel of the Chimes
The Bay Area has its own annual musical event to mark the summer solstice, the real beginning of the season of plenty.
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Wyrick-Oh Duo:Russian Masters of the 20th Century

Michael Zwiebach - June 9, 2009
Wyrick-Oh Duo

Yes, symphony musicians play music outside of their orchestral obbligations. It keeps them creative and engaged.

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Re-cycle, Re-view, Sing New

Michael Zwiebach - June 9, 2009
San Francisco Choral Artists

Artists, along with dung beetles and leafcutter ants, are among the most efficient recyclers in the world.

Pop Goes the YPSO

Michael Zwiebach - June 3, 2009

The pops concerts are coming! The pops concerts are coming!

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Tosca With Fries

Michael Zwiebach - June 2, 2009
Opera in the Park

When Tosca throws herself from the parapet of the Castel Sant' Angelo, at the end of Puccini's brilliant opera, the assembled crowd watc

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International Orange Chorale

Michael Zwiebach - June 2, 2009
The San Francisco Bay Area is a little foretaste of chorus heaven. Choruses flourish here, and their activities are constant. So what makes a person want to found another chorus? In the case of the International Orange Chorale of San Francisco, it’s as simple as wanting to choose your friends.
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Jerry Kuderna

Michael Zwiebach - June 2, 2009
To hear pianist (and longtime SFCV contributor) Jerry Kuderna tell it, his upcoming concert at Trinity Chapel in Berkeley on June 6 was an extreme example of serendipity. There he was, innocently practicing music of the Catalan composer Federico Mompou, “the first Spanish composer who really got into my system,” he says.
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Loving Catullus

Michael Zwiebach - May 19, 2009
You might assume, from its Latin name Chora Nova, that it specializes in early music, but that’s far from the truth, as its upcoming concerts this week demonstrate. Carl Orff’s Catulli Carmina (Song of Catullus) does have Latin words, though its musical style is familiar from the composer’s Carmina Burana.
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Spring Concert: Young People's Symphony Orchestra

Michael Zwiebach - May 6, 2009
Bonnie Hampton

Well-known Bay Area cellist Bonnie Hampton’s relationship with the Young People’s Symphony Orchestra goes back to the time when she was a pr

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More Handel Festivities

Michael Zwiebach - May 5, 2009
Bernard Labadie

The San Francisco Symphony and the Symphony Chorus contribute to the year’s Handel festivities with performances of three of the composer