Artist Spotlights

Fresh from a European tour, the Kronos Quartet hosts a pair of Bay Area presentations of the tantalizing music of Azerbaijan, along with fascinating new additions to their repertoire.

A renowned Norwegian pianist finds home even on his frequent tours, and values the intimacy of smaller concert halls.

A Bay Area ensemble performs a reduced-forces version of a classic American novel, set in opera form by John Harbison.

A voluble, wide-ranging San Francisco opera composer discusses the premiere of his song cycle portraying a French artistic genius.

A great conductor approaches 30 years in his ongoing love affair with his former symphony, leading two programs in February.

Keeping busy as violinist, violist, conductor, and teacher, 63-year-old Pinchas Zukerman has plenty to say about what he’s learned ... and what’s to come.

A Grammy-nominated pianist reflects on her youthful exposure to great festival music, her recent tours, and her venturesome repertoire.

Daniel Pollack has fulfilled endless requests to return to perform in Russia, where he and Van Cliburn triumphed in the first-ever Tchaikovsky Piano Competition, 53 years ago.

The siren songstress of '60s social causes, home for the holidays in Woodside, joins Maestro Michael Morgan for the Oakland East Bay Symphony's annual celebration.

Leila Josefowicz talks with SFCV prior to performing a work that Esa-Pekka Salonen wrote for her and will conduct at the S.F. Symphony. To her it, "is a dream that became true. It’s the biggest sense of purpose an instrument can have."