Small, distinguished Volti is known for more than superb choral performances — it also commissions, performs, and advocates for new music. The group’s next concert, a free event at San Francisco State ...

The Oakland Symphony doesn’t qualify as a political organization. But the ensemble tunes into its city’s culture and concerns, and that’s its special sauce.

Steve Reich \. Few ensembles have forged a closer relationship with Steve Reich than the Bang on a Can All-Stars, and the elegantly concise Oct. 24 Cal Per ...

If orchestras have personalities, then Pasadena Symphony Music Director Brett Mitchell has found his groove with the musicians. Beginning his third season on Oct. 24 at Ambassador Auditorium, he ...

The mood was electric when Joe Hisaishi took the stage at Davies Symphony Hall last weekend. Seeing the house packed full of young adult concertgoers, some even in cosplay, eager for the composer to ...

Hisaishi will serve as the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Composer-in-Residence for the Bowl and The Ford for five years beginning in the 2027-2028 season. Hisaishi made his debut at the Bowl in 2023, and ...

Leif Ove Andsnes is always interested in exploring what he calls “the fringe repertoire” of classical music. Earlier this year, the Norwegian pianist received critical acclaim for a new recording of ...

Elim Chan \. Recent upheavals at the Los Angeles Philharmonic are still reverberating in Walt Disney Concert Hall this month. Elim Chan, once thought to have o ...

Approaching its 60th anniversary, Pacific Chorale has built its now international reputation through adventurous programming exactly like this, including dozens of premieres and commissions. Its ...

Frank Stewart. There are welcome reunions, like Marcus Roberts collaborating with the New Century Chamber Orchestra on “Groove,” a series of Bay ...

The tulle skirts associated with Romantic-era ballet were introduced in “The Ballet of the Nuns” in Act III of Meyerbeer’s opera Robert le diable, which premiered at the Paris Opèra in 1831. Marie ...

Johann Sebastian Bach’s Prelude in C Minor packs a speedy punch with its rich, complex, repetitive layers. That piece is not unlike the work of the Bay Area’s John Adams, one of the most influential ...