New Music

Date:
City:
Berkeley
Price Range:
$35–$88
Date:
City:
Berkeley
Price Range:
$35–$88
Harlow Robinson - July 21, 2026

The weekend at Music Academy of the West included contemporary chamber music and then a multimedia orchestra concert.

Tamzin Elliott - July 20, 2026

Grief, defiance, and humor honor trans lives in full classical splendor.

Richard S. Ginell - July 20, 2026

Andrew Megill has it both ways in Carmel, pairing pointed Bach cantatas with a candlelit collage of Rilke-inspired choral music.

Date:
City:
San Francisco
Price Range:
$10 to $30
Emily Wilson - July 14, 2026

Composer Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer have created The Judgment of Paris for Festival Napa Valley.

Richard S. Ginell - July 14, 2026

The festival's opening weekend stretches Carmel's ears with collages of old and new.

Caroline Chen - July 14, 2026

For the Festival’s 89th season, artistic director and principal conductor Grete Pedersen urges audiences to “come with open ears!”

Paul Bodine - July 14, 2026

Dinnerstein and her Baroklyn ensemble find intimacy, strangeness, and benediction in two of Glass's most cinematic scores.