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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Salons at the Rex

Michael Zwiebach - May 5, 2009
Jennifer Kloetzel
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Brandenburgs For Mother's Day

Michael Zwiebach - May 5, 2009
On Mother’s Day, as on most holidays, concertgoing opportunities will be limited, as presenters fear loss of their audience to other activities, such as the
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Cameron Carpenter

Michael Zwiebach - April 28, 2009

Cameron Carpenter is a rarity in the rarified world of classical organists. Flamboyant and virtuosic in performance, he has earned not only recognition among musicians, but also popularity as a soloist that overshadows all other exponents of the instrument.

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Frederick Rzewski

Michael Zwiebach - April 21, 2009
Frederick Rzewski

Frederic Rzewski is still playing his 1975 masterwork, The People United Will Never Be Defeated, 36 variations on a Chilean song associat

Eidolon String Quartet

Michael Zwiebach - April 21, 2009
New chamber groups spring up all the time, usually without fanfare. But the new Eidolon String Quartet deserves attention because its founder is Franklyn D’Antonio, concertmaster of the Berkeley Symphony, and former member of the Chicago Symphony and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
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Power Play

Michael Zwiebach - April 20, 2009

The Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and their indefatigable music director, Nicholas McGegan, were in top form as they tore into Handel’s oratorio Athalia Saturday night. That means that a writer can only cast about for enough synonyms for the word wonderful.

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Orchestra of Fun

Michael Zwiebach - April 7, 2009
Benjamin Simon

San Francisco Chamber Orchestra concerts are always lively affairs.

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Carmen

Michael Zwiebach - April 7, 2009
Carmen

Few classical works are as recession-proof as Opera San José's next production, Georges Bizet's Carmen.

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Rossetti Piano Quartet

Michael Zwiebach - April 7, 2009
Rossetti Piano Quartet

Put three-quarters of a string quartet (violin, viola, cello) together with a piano and you have a grouping that has inspired some of the g

Alfonso Alberti:The Music of Niccolò Castiglioni

Michael Zwiebach - March 24, 2009
A rare opportunity to hear one of the 20th century’s underplayed composers. Though Niccolò Castiglioni (1932-1996) isn’t often mentioned in histories of 20th-century music, his music seems more contemporary than many composers who are.