New Music

Joe Cadagin - April 25, 2016

The new-music ensemble takes the audience on a sonic trip with Fausto Romitelli’s eerie video opera at the Freight and Salvage.

Lou Fancher - April 14, 2016

The multimedia pioneer’s complex layers of sight and sound may seem off-the-cuff, but there’s a world of thought and preparation behind each performance.

Lou Fancher - April 11, 2016

The wildly creative DJ and composer pairs processed recordings of a “dead” baroque ensemble with the S.F. Symphony performing live.

Rebecca Wishnia - April 1, 2016

In their "Bridge to Beethoven" series, violinist Jennifer Koh and pianist Shai Wosner set a contemporary composer a near-impossible task.

Niels Swinkels - March 23, 2016

Fresh compositions by Simon Dobson highlight the latest installment of this inventive series.

Joe Cadagin - March 9, 2016

The extraordinary music Monk creates, largely with her own voice, still has the power to amaze, as a recital drawn from her long career showed.

Giacomo Fiore - March 8, 2016

Composer Catherine Lamb creates a composition/soundscape that is both suggestive and familiar.

Rebecca Wishnia - March 8, 2016

The lights were more than dimmed at S.F. Performances’ inaugural PIVOT program at the Strand Theater. They were turned off, and they stayed off for the concert’s duration.

Rebecca Wishnia - February 8, 2016

The premiere of one of the first Fifty for the Future Commissions highlighted the final night of the Kronos Quartet’s second annual festival.

Joe Cadagin - February 1, 2016

The singer-songwriter/composer joined string quartet Brooklyn Rider for a different kind of Schubertiade.