With flutist Claire Chase as this year’s music director, the California festival highlighted female composers and an array of ...

Composer Gabriella Smith knows how to make a lasting impression. Her organ concerto “Breathing Forests” was a highlight of the San Francisco Symphony’s 2023-24 season, a work of tremendous power and ...

For the L.A. Phil's Seoul Festival, leading Korean composer Unsuk Chin invites a new generation of composers largely unknown ...

The San Francisco Symphony is playing your song — be it well-loved classical, jazz or a host of new works and new approaches.

Like a slow drumroll, four strikes of the timpani herald the beginning of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto. This time, they also announced Hilary Hahn’s triumphant return to San Francisco. The American ...

If you go to an orchestra concert, it’s pretty easy to figure out what most of the people onstage are contributing to the overall experience. The violinists and cellists move their bows back and forth ...

Esa-Pekka Salonen and the musicians of the San Francisco Symphony are making the most of their remaining concerts together. That much was clear on Friday, May 23, at Davies Symphony Hall, as the ...

Music Festival on Sunday and Tod Machover's opera 'Schoenberg in Hollywood' raise the question of whether there's ever been an L.A. school of music. Our critic has thoughts.

Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Los Angeles Philharmonic ... Those recordings hold up for their crystalline sound and youthful spunk. Those qualities remain, but with a new richness and sense of ...

Pekka Kuusisto performed Bryce Dessner's Violin Concerto with ... fierce tone cut through the massed orchestral sound." Alena Baeva performed Barber's Violin Concerto, Op.14 with The Hallé and Marta ...