Reviews

Richard S. Ginell - January 28, 2025

Under conductor Eun Sun Kim, the Rachmaninoff-heavy concert also includes composer Nico Muhly’s latest work.

Lisa Hirsch - January 28, 2025

Two of the Bay Area’s premier small ensembles team up for a program that dwells on the netherworld between waking and dreams.

Rebecca Wishnia - January 28, 2025

An intimate concert offers the opportunity to hear a work by Arnold Bax, along with juvenilia by Benjamin Britten and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.

Andrew Gilbert - January 28, 2025

Yang’s trio revisits a groundbreaking work that bridges jazz and classical, Mary Lou Williams’s 1945 Zodiac Suite.

Harlow Robinson - January 28, 2025

Brett Mitchell leads the orchestra congenially, with Inon Barnatan soloing in Florence Price’s Piano Concerto in One Movement.

Rebecca Wishnia - January 26, 2025

Two works by Hector Berlioz get the spotlight in the orchestra’s latest program, along with music by Debussy, Richard Strauss, and John Adams.

Yoshi Kato - January 22, 2025

Spencer uses the MLK holiday to introduce singers from her mentoring program across a weekend of sets at the SFJAZZ Center.

Harlow Robinson - January 22, 2025

The group’s latest concert, “Lift Every Voice,” comforts fire-ravaged Los Angeles the day before the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.

Nicholas Jones - January 22, 2025

Soprano Julia Bullock joins the esteemed London-based ensemble for an invigorating concert at Cal Performances.

Lisa Hirsch - January 18, 2025

The orchestra and soloist Víkingur Ólafsson give the world premiere of After the Fall, Adams’s third piano concerto.