Rebecca Wishnia

French pianist Alexandre Kantorow’s emotional Wagner encore leaves Davies Symphony Hall spellbound in a powerful SF Symphony performance led by Karina Canellakis.

Music Director Eun Sun Kim and the San Francisco Opera Orchestra went back to Beethoven for their fall concert, which also featured music by Manuel de Falla.

The San Francisco Symphony shines in Märkl's debut, while violinist Leonidas Kavakos solos in Bela Bartok's Violin Concerto No. 2.

Conductor James Gaffigan returns to the San Francisco Symphony with a program of American works by George Gershwin, Carlos Simon, and Duke Ellington.

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

SF Opera’s training program for young singers performed the comic opera on July 31.

The brother-and-sister duo get their separate chances to shine in several lesser-known works for cello and piano.

The superstar violinist partners with the orchestra in an all-Beethoven program that shows her at her inimitable best.

The acclaimed young ensemble digs into works by Mozart, Beethoven, and Billy Childs in a polished performance at Herbst Theatre.

Composer and percussionist Andy Akiho curates an adventurous program partly inspired by the art of Japanese American ceramicist Jun Kaneko.