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Cheng is one of the great explorers of new music, pushing herself beyond her comfort zone and finding delight in the unexpected.

Sheku Kanneh-Mason takes on Shostakovich’s First Cello Concerto, while Dudamel leads a Villa-Lobos ballet and Stravinsky’s Firebird.

The San Francisco Symphony plays Naïve and Sentimental Music, plus a new violin concerto with soloist Pekka Kuusisto.

The maverick saxophonist and composer busts open the recital format and makes it exciting with his multidirectional improvisations.

As he gets ready to play Lohengrin in San Francisco, O’Neill talks about his life as one of the leading Wagner tenors of his generation.

Did Stephen Sondheim’s celebrated portrait of creative obsession spark ideas for composer Mason Bates and librettist Mark Campbell?

When Hanzhi Wang and Avi Avital share the stage at Cal Performances this week, familiar music will get a whole new twist.

You still hear the influence of the Great American Songbook, but younger vocalists are taking inspiration and material from other genres, too.

The post-pandemic world has been hard on these underfunded organizations. How will they hang on?

The pianist has rented out Herbst Theatre with composer JJ Hollingsworth to present his Petals of Peace and her Glass Suite.