Small, distinguished Volti is known for more than superb choral performances — it also commissions, performs, and advocates ...

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

Steve Reich \. Few ensembles have forged a closer relationship with Steve Reich than the Bang on a Can All-Stars, and the ...

If orchestras have personalities, then Pasadena Symphony Music Director Brett Mitchell has found his groove with the ...

Elim Chan \. Recent upheavals at the Los Angeles Philharmonic are still reverberating in Walt Disney Concert Hall this month.

Approaching its 60th anniversary, Pacific Chorale has built its now international reputation through adventurous programming ...

Leif Ove Andsnes is always interested in exploring what he calls “the fringe repertoire” of classical music. Earlier this ...

The mood was electric when Joe Hisaishi took the stage at Davies Symphony Hall last weekend. Seeing the house packed full of ...

Hisaishi will serve as the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Composer-in-Residence for the Bowl and The Ford for five years ...

Frank Stewart. There are welcome reunions, like Marcus Roberts collaborating with the New Century Chamber Orchestra on ...

For many years, early music was a small, revolutionary, breakaway republic stripping away performance traditions in search of a new understanding of Baroque music. But by the 1990s, change was in the ...

It’s a strange tale for those of us who grew up in the era of high modernism, but contemporary opera has become popular with audiences. Not the dense, uncompromising works, mind you: Harrison ...