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The busy musician, 61, has spent a career gigging with local greats and enjoys incubating young talent, while holding down the keyboard role with the Red Hot Skillet Lickers.

The Banff International String Quartet Competition gave a prize package worth $500,000 CAD to the Cincinnati-based Poiesis Quartet.

Dead Man Walking will open at San Francisco Opera on Sept. 14 and run through Sept. 28. Composer Jake Heggie discusses the opera’s origins and staying power.

In an excerpt from his biography John Williams: A Composer’s Life, Tim Greiving recounts how the composer changed minds about movie music.

Richard Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung saga gets another directorial transformation, one that often ignores the music’s messages.

Under Terence Blanchard’s leadership, the organization continues its boundary-breaking programming while reaching for new heights.

See which artists and performances topped our annual readers’ poll.

Much more than a sideman, jazz musician Kash Killion opens sonic possibilities in a vast array of contexts.

See which artists and performances topped our annual readers’ poll.

The company’s 2025 festival season features bold productions that invite the natural world in.