Hisaishi will serve as the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Composer-in-Residence for the Bowl and The Ford for five years ...

Leif Ove Andsnes is always interested in exploring what he calls “the fringe repertoire” of classical music. Earlier this ...

The mood was electric when Joe Hisaishi took the stage at Davies Symphony Hall last weekend. Seeing the house packed full of ...

Elim Chan \. Recent upheavals at the Los Angeles Philharmonic are still reverberating in Walt Disney Concert Hall this month.

Approaching its 60th anniversary, Pacific Chorale has built its now international reputation through adventurous programming ...

Frank Stewart. There are welcome reunions, like Marcus Roberts collaborating with the New Century Chamber Orchestra on ...

For many years, early music was a small, revolutionary, breakaway republic stripping away performance traditions in search of a new understanding of Baroque music. But by the 1990s, change was in the ...

It’s a strange tale for those of us who grew up in the era of high modernism, but contemporary opera has become popular with audiences. Not the dense, uncompromising works, mind you: Harrison ...

SF Classical Voice readers had a lot to think about in answering our 2025-2026 survey. Fiscal uncertainty or not, the Los Angeles calendar was filled with concerts from the interesting to the ...

Johann Sebastian Bach’s Prelude in C Minor packs a speedy punch with its rich, complex, repetitive layers. That piece is not unlike the work of the Bay Area’s John Adams, one of the most influential ...

Who sang the title role in San Francisco Opera’s 1973 production of Carmen? When was Hector Berlioz’s Les Troyens first performed at the War Memorial Opera House? Which SF Opera productions were ...

In their seven seasons together, San Diego Symphony CEO Martha Gilmer and Music/Artistic Director Rafael Payare have repeatedly stated a shared goal: to push their orchestra, California’s oldest, up ...