New Music

A new Jennifer Higdon suite highlights an evening of music inspired by — but not necessarily for — dancing.

In Hunger Strike, composer and vocalist Amy X Neuburg turns our attention to the conditions of solitary confinement.

The heralded composer’s much-anticipated premiere was just one gem in a dazzling evening of sonic and temporal connections explored by Pablo Heras-Casado and the S.F Symphony.

The new-music ensemble takes the audience on a sonic trip with Fausto Romitelli’s eerie video opera at the Freight and Salvage.

The multimedia pioneer’s complex layers of sight and sound may seem off-the-cuff, but there’s a world of thought and preparation behind each performance.

The wildly creative DJ and composer pairs processed recordings of a “dead” baroque ensemble with the S.F. Symphony performing live.

In their "Bridge to Beethoven" series, violinist Jennifer Koh and pianist Shai Wosner set a contemporary composer a near-impossible task.

Fresh compositions by Simon Dobson highlight the latest installment of this inventive series.

The extraordinary music Monk creates, largely with her own voice, still has the power to amaze, as a recital drawn from her long career showed.

Composer Catherine Lamb creates a composition/soundscape that is both suggestive and familiar.