Herbert Blomstedt \ “Maestro Blomstedt was all about the music, in the purest possible way. When we played Mozart, Schubert, Brahms, ...

San Francisco Conservatory of Music’s 2026–27 season announcement speaks of “a new model for conservatory education as a creative incubator to life.” The school plans to add unprecedented ...

On Jan. 31 and Feb. 1, Cave Concert, a nonprofit concert project, will hold four concerts of classical and liturgical choral music underground in Vallecito’s Moaning Caverns, California’s largest ...

On October 3, 2026 Steve Reich turned 90, though you would never know it from the level of enthusiasm he maintains for the creative process. I had a chance to chat with the famous composer on Oct. 19, ...

The Santa Rosa Symphony’s 2026–2027 chamber music season is its second at the Brannan Center, the converted Calistoga church that opened in October 2025. The series runs three programs across five ...

The Irish conductor and harpsichordist Peter Whelan began his tenure as music director of Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale (PBOC) in July, after a year as music director designate. Whelan ...

In the latest example of turnover at the Los Angeles Philharmonic, principal concertmaster Martin Chalifour has announced he will retire from the orchestra at the end of the 2024–2025 season. He was ...

Is the goal of an early music concert to create a time capsule from another era? Is it an attempt to bring antique repertoire and instruments into the contemporary moment. Inspired, perhaps, by Sunday ...

A program titled “Voices of Vienna” might conjure expectations of either Joseph Haydn’s light classicism or Alban Berg’s expressionist atonality. However, the Colburn School’s concert featured works ...

Throughout Los Angeles Opera's 2026-2027 Fall/Spring season the call "Curtain going up!" takes on a whole new dimension. That's because as a prelude to every performance the audience will experience ...

Young People’s Symphony Orchestra, the famous Berkeley-based group whose members range in age from 11 to 21, is the second oldest such organization among the hundreds of youth orchestras in the U.S.

Michael Yu. At 34, Iranian American composer Niloufar Nourbakhsh has been hailed for her singular musical voice. Her works having been performed worl ...