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Tickets to the 2011 holiday season’s best concerts are at your fingertips in this guide from SFCV’s Kids & Families editor.

Leila Josefowicz talks with SFCV prior to performing a work that Esa-Pekka Salonen wrote for her and will conduct at the S.F. Symphony. To her it, "is a dream that became true. It’s the biggest sense of purpose an instrument can have."

Farewell to Montserrat Figueras, a great singer whom Bay Area audiences will long remember.

Who could ask for anything more? A singing/playing/dancing celebration of the Gershwin brothers’ genius takes the stage at Stanford.

The acclaimed composer/conductor reflects on balancing his life-after-the-L.A.-Phil with time for creating, for leading performers, and for enjoying family life.

An innovative ensemble gives wide latitude to a range of composers in its upcoming recital.

A multitalented string quartet continues to probe the depths of Haydn and now some of his contemporaries and students, as well.

The San Francisco Symphony gives you plenty of choices of family holiday concerts—certainly enough to schedule around your holiday parties. And Davies Symphony Hall with its beautifully decorated lobby is resplendent during the season.

Anyone who’s followed this quirky (and preposterously skilled) ensemble for any time at all knows that it’s ill-inclined to sit still, and that when it does move, it’s nearly always in a startling direction.