Two commissions honor Marin Alsop, the festivals founder and guiding light.
Recent works by Christopher Rouse and James MacMillan highlight the 2016 Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music’s opening concert.
A collaborative song cycle explores the intersection of photography and music.
Pianist Yefim Bronfman is outstanding in the S.F. Symphony premiere of a new piece bustling with musical ideas and technical challenges.
Artists honk, squeal, and roar into new musical territory at the fearless festival.
A John Adams piece featuring electric violin is at the heart of a program exploring the contemplative side of 20th-century music.
A great American composer shows his variety in a well-balanced, entertaining performance at chamber/text, the free concert series.
Pianist Taka Kigawa brought energy and immediacy to Ligeti’s pianistic Everest.
A concerto penned under the auspices of the symphony’s Young American Composer-in-Residence program gets the spotlight in a beautifully balanced program.
With his opera in suspended animation, the composer Mark Grey puts forth a Frankenstein Symphony based on its themes at the Berkeley Symphony.
