Steven Winn

The North Bay orchestra demonstrates why it should be on any music-lover’s radar.

S.F. Symphony’s stripped-down staging highlights the operetta’s strengths and weaknesses.

The general director mixes the fresh and the familiar in a season of "emotive storytelling."

Soloists Nikolas Nackley and Tonia D’Amelio straddle the spiritual and the erotic in a charged performance of two cantatas.

The violinist’s musicality and technique lit up four sonatas and partitas in a recital at Davies Hall.

S.F. Symphony’s imaginative music incubator featured exhilarating, intergenerational family duets.

Thomas Adès’s operatic adaptation of Buñuel’s nightmarish masterpiece works brilliantly. Catch the encore in a theater near you.

The American master’s turbulent, challenging music arouses powerful responses.

Alasdair Neale and Marin Symphony offer a vivid program of Tchaikovsky, Barber, and Mussorgsky.

Michael Morgan, orchestra, and soloists convey a persuasive interpretation of Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 15.