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In a continuation of his conversation with SFCV, Cal Performances Director Matías Tarnopolsky muses on the direction of music education in the U.S. and the fusing of performance and education goals at the UC Berkeley institution.

Magen Solomon’s San Francisco Choral Artists, having justreceived a favorable review in Fanfare for their recent With Strings Attached CD, should makeanyone’s shortlist of choral concerts to attend.

The Alexander String Quartet visits the Mondavi Center with Schubert quartets on the bill. The Alexanders are a superb, long-standing group which doesn’t get enough credit for their fine music-making.

The Ives Quartet is the second act in the Crowden Music Center’s marvelous Sundays@Four concert series.

This combination ought to make people sit up and take notice: conductor George Cleve and pianist Peter Serkin performing Brahms’ First Piano Concerto. 

The New Esterhazy Quartet's concert is a fascinating way to mull over the Haydn-Beethoven teacher-student relationship, and it will be great to see these fantastic period instrumentalists dig into Beethoven’s masterpiece. 

The S.F. Symphony beats the band, showing its idiosyncratic side in a terrific new release of scores by Cowell, Harrison, and Varèse.

In the “new economy,” young musicians are finding their way, despite an uncertain job market, declining concert attendance, and other discouragements. Here are some of their stories, along with the perspective of an older generation.