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Each work on the S.F. Symphony program, conducted with tremendous verve by MTT, came across splendidly, with Thomas Adès’ Polaris, radiating light and emerging as the evening’s high point

New Director For Community Music Center Guitarist Ashwin Krishna Has Pluck Central Market Arts Festival

Much-lauded pianist Inon Barnatan walks on the dark side in his upcoming Atherton recital.

The founder (and funder) of the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival talks about the banjo, his financial career, and musicians he loves to pluck strings alongside.

The renowned violinist is opening a new chapter, becoming music director of an esteemed British ensemble while also continuing his solo career.

In another sign of the times the 2010 Latin Grammy for Best Classical Album went to Fernando Otero. He's at SFJAZZ this weekend and if you like contemporary Latin American sounds, you'll definitely be pleasantly surprised at the variety of his repertoire.

This weekend the Ives Quartet is playing a quintet, the Brahms F-Minor Piano Quintet to be exact. But what's really exciting is that pianist Gwendolyn Mok is going to play (as she played Ravel last year), on her 19th-century piano, an Erard, the Paris firm that was one of the most highly regarded instrument makers in Europe.

Although the cunning folks at the San Francisco Symphony are billing this concert as “MTT Conducts Mozart and Stravinsky,” the real excitement is going to come from the local premiere of Thomas Adès' Polaris, a co-commission of the SFS, with video by Tal Rosner.

Three faculty members of the S.F. Conservatory stage a sumptuous, full-course meal, whipped up by Dvořák, Bach, Schoenberg, and Rachmaninov.

A New Yorker cartoonist draws musicians and celebrities, when he’s not noodling around on the ivories.