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Pianist Krystian Zimerman honors a great, if rarely heard, Polish composer whose music has overcome Stalinist oppression.

Gautier Capuçon transports the audience with his poetic playing of a Dutilleux work, inspired by lines from Baudelaire.

Despite a funding setback, Gold Coast Chamber Players still hosts the Amati Ensemble from the Netherlands for a rich chamber concert in Lafayette.

With their latest Call and Response concert, the Cypress Quartet explores the question, “What is exotic?”

Walden School, based in the Bay Area, with summer programs in New Hampshire, is honored for its innovative approach to teaching young musicians.

Sergio and Odair Assad have moved audiences and inspired guitarists around the world for over 30 years. Sunday, their program was musically thrilling, emotionally satisfying and, at least implicitly, a politically challenging and sympathetic view of immigration.

Young Composer Jane Lange Wins ASCAP Award
Jamming for Japan: 8-year-old Drums Up Dollars in Support
Bye-Bye Birdie Takes Flight at St. Patrick School

Bay Area audiences know pianist Hadley McCarroll, who is also a well-loved music teacher in Oakland. If you haven't heard her play, you might nip over to Old First Concerts on Sunday.

James MacMillan's passionate setting of the Seven Last Words has had a bit of a mini-revival in the Bay Area the last couple of months. Now it's the turn of the Sanford Dole Ensemble to sing this modern classic.

Renowned lutenist Hopkinson Smith has transcribed Bach's Suites for Solo Cello for the theorbo (a bass lute). Bach lovers can see him play the first three of them at concerts for the San Francisco Early Music Society this weekend.