SAN FRANCISCO / BAY AREA CLASSICAL MUSIC NEWS COVERAGE

The SF Symphony Youth Orchestra has announced Radu Paponiu as the new Wattis Foundation Music Director starting in the 2024–25 season....

London-born Broadway and film actress and singer Cynthia Erivo will join Esa-Pekka Salonen and the San Francisco Symphony in concert at Davies Symphony Hall in September. Learn how to purchase tickets....

Launching Opera San José’s 41st season is a family-friendly production of The Magic Flute, to be conducted by prodigy composer/conductor Alma Deutscher. Learn how to purchase tickets....

The San Francisco Symphony, in partnership with the San Francisco Conservatory of Music has named Tyler Taylor is the winner of the fourth annual Emerging Black Composers Project prize. Learn more about the prize!...

PianoSonoma will present 2024 Vino & Vibrato concert series. See the artists who are performing, and learn how to purchase tickets. ...

Symphony San Jose will present REMEMBER THE TITANS on Saturday, June 1 2024 at 7:30pm and Sunday, June 2, 2024 at 2:30pm at The California Theatre....

Join the SF Symphony Youth Orchestra as they honor Music Director Daniel Stewart in his final concert on May 19. Celebrate the end of an era with stunning performances and heartfelt tributes....

San José Chamber Orchestra (SJCO) will continue its 33rd concert season with SJCO CHAMBER MUSIC, an intimate evening featuring special guests San Francisco-based Telegraph Quartet and SJCO principal players for one performance only, on Saturday, April 27. ...

Multi-platinum, 12-time Grammy Award-winner John Legend will join the San Francisco Symphony to bring John Legend: A Night of Songs and Stories with the San Francisco Symphony to audiences this summer. Learn how to purchase tickets....

The San Francisco Conservatory of Music (SFCM) has named conductor and composer Michael Tilson Thomas (MTT) as the institution's Distinguished Professor of Music. To celebrate MTT’s artistic achievements in the year of his 80th birthday, SFCM's allied record label PENTATONE will release a box set co...

Steinway Society – The Bay Area will present one of the world's foremost chamber ensembles on April 20, 2024 at 7:30 pm PST at St. Francis Episcopal Church in San Jose, CA....

Steinway Society – The Bay Area will present the daring and imaginative classical pianist Pavel Kolesnikov in concert on April 7, 2024 at 2:30 pm PST at Cubberley Community Center Theatre in Palo Alto, Ca....

San José Chamber Orchestra continues its 33rd concert season with SJCO CHAMBER MUSIC, an intimate evening featuring special guests San Francisco-based Telegraph Quartet and SJCO principal players for one performance only, on Saturday, April 27....

What did our critic think of SAN FRANCISCO GAY MEN’S CHORUS PRESENTS DRAG ME TO THE MOVIES! at Davies Symphony Hall?...

The San Francisco Bay Area's ​21V choral ensemble, under the direction of Dr. Martín Benvenuto, will present Reclaiming Radical on Friday April 5, 2024 at 8:00 p.m. at Old Mission Dolores in San Francisco and Saturday, April 6, 2024 at 4:00 p.m. at the Hillside Club in Berkeley....

Esa-Pekka Salonen, renowned conductor and composer, has been named the 2024 Polar Music Prize Laureate....

San José Chamber Orchestra presents MANDOLIN MADNESS on March 17 featuring a World Premiere concerto for two mandolins and orchestra. ...

Berkeley Symphony welcomes Marion Atherton as its new Executive Director....

Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen and the San Francisco Symphony, along with violinist Lisa Batiashvili, embark on a three-concert Southern California tour March 20–22....

San José Chamber Orchestra presents FANTASIA. The program features the West Coast Premiere of conductor Alyssa Wang and soloists James Blanchard on flute and Matthieu Cognet on piano....

Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts SF Symphony in three programs at Davies Symphony Hall in February and March 2024....

SF Symphony will present Lunar New Year: Year of the Dragon concert on Feb 17, 2024....

Guest conductors Dalia Stasevska and Jukka-Pekka Saraste lead the San Francisco Symphony in two weeks of concerts at Davies Symphony Hall in January and February. ...

San Francisco Symphony Music Director Laureate Michael Tilson Thomas is reducing his upcoming conducting schedule with the Orchestra and has withdrawn from his upcoming January 18–20 and February 23–25 programs in order to focus on his health. ...

Conductor Jaap van Zweden leads the San Francisco Symphony in concerts on January 11–13.  ...

The San Francisco Symphony’s Shenson Spotlight Series, now in its third season, features ascendant artists in their Davies Symphony Hall recital debuts. ...

The Ross McKee Foundation has announced the laureates of its 26th Annual Ross McKee Piano Competition, Claire Chang (14), Tyler Chew (16), Ariel Chien (16) and Emma Lai (17). Each laureate receives a prize of $1,500 and participates in the Competition's final concert on December 17....

Join the California Pops Orchestra on Dec 17th for 'Holiday with the Pops' at the San Mateo Performing Arts Center. Don't miss this festive holiday concert!...

San José Chamber Orchestra presents CELEBRATION, New Year's Eve concert featuring conductor Barbara Day Turner and soloists Jon Nakamatsu and Jon and Alec Manasse. Glorious works to mark the changing of the year. Reception follows the concert....

Berkeley Symphony will ring in this holiday season with Holiday Winds, where Berkeley Symphony woodwind musicians will perform festive favorites at Piedmont Center for the Arts on Sunday, December 3, at 4 p.m....

San Francisco Opera presents the acclaimed San Francisco Opera Chorus in concert at the intimate Dianne and Tad Taube Atrium Theater on the fourth floor of the Veterans Building on Friday, December 8....

The 2024 Youth Music Culture The Greater Bay Area (YMCG) will take place in China's Greater Bay Area from 20 Jan to 1 Feb 2024....

Symphony San Jose presents 'AMERICAN PORTRAITS” on December 2 and 3, 2023, featuring five musical postcards celebrating the beauty and diversity of the United States. Experience patriotic, soulful, and iconic compositions by Ives, Still, Midkiff, Shaw, and Copland....

Berkeley Symphony continues its 2023-24 Chamber Series with California Connections on Sunday, November 19, 2023 at 4 p.m at Piedmont Center for the Arts....

The San Francisco Conservatory of Music (SFCM), in partnership with the San Francisco Symphony and cellist Gautier Capuçon, announced today that Quenton Xavier Blache, 22, will receive a commissioning prize under the umbrella of the Emerging Black Composers Project (EBCP). ...

Don't miss the SF Symphony Youth Orchestra and Daniel Stewart as they take the stage for five incredible concerts in the 2023-24 season. Find out when and where you can catch these talented performers in action....

Conductor Gustavo Dudamel leads the San Francisco Symphony in concerts featuring cuatro player Jorge Glem on November 24–26....

San José Chamber Orchestra presents MYSTICISM, a concert featuring conductor Barbara Day Turner and cellist Evan Kahn on Sunday, November 12....

Chamber Music Marin presents the Alexander String Quartet as part of their 2023-24 Chamber Music Concert Series.  ...

Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen leads the San Francisco Symphony in two Orchestral Series programs, November 10–12 and November 17–18, featuring works by composers with California ties: Emerging Black Composers Project winner Jens Ibsen’s Drowned in Light, Gabriella Smith’s Breathing Forests, Salon...