About halfway through her act, with hands performing gymnastics in the air, Emily Greene admits to loving coffee houses and the time she ran around naked as a teenager and kissed her friend, “no we didn’t make out, but she was cute.” Her innocent chatter is a part of the indie jazz pianist's charm. She wants you to understand she is sweet, quirky and ready to divulge secrets to anyone who will listen. It’s genuine and translates to beautiful songwriting the second she sits at a pian... more ›

Yuja Wang will dazzle us this week at Davies Symphony Hall, playing the dastardly difficult Prokofiev piano concerto #2 with MTT. Here she plays the concerto's scherzo with the YouTube symphony orchestra. She is all of twenty-two, but already acclaimed as the future of classical music. She has performed with the San Francisco symphony three times already, earning accolade galore from the critics: "an artist of dazzling genius," says the SF Chronicle, surrounded by "an aura of greatness...Wang combines a practically superhuman keyboard technique with artistic eloquence that is second to none." That is some serious hyperbole to put on the shoulder of such a tiny "sparrow, (a very pretty sparrow)," drools the LA Times. more ›