Rebecca Wishnia

A thought-provoking concert at Mills College presents startling ways of making sounds and music.

The pianist cleverly interweaves new compositions with Janáček’s On an Overgrown Path.

Fine performances fail to lift the music above the pleasantly familiar.

Great performances mark Left Coast Chamber Ensemble’s ambitious program of two new Kurt Rhode operas.

The S.F. Symphony gave a stellar account of a 20th-century masterwork, and Joshua Roman carried Dvorak’s Cello Concerto.

The cellist and performer/composer collaborate in a fresh, wide-ranging program.

The young violinist plays a thrilling Mendelssohn concerto in perfect synch with the S.F. Symphony

Aficionados celebrate an eclectic range of new (and even old) electronic music at the 18th annual festival.

Sometimes concert extras don’t add that much.

George Lewis’s Afterword, an opera has an original premise, and some beautiful music, but there’s one big fly in the ointment.