Arts & Entertainment A Preview Of The 2017-18 Classical Music Season In The Bay Area The new classical music season kicks off this weekend with Turandot, which was the center of the opening night gala Friday at SF Opera, and continues tonight (Saturday) with Elektra. On Sunday, the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Mason Bates's Cello Concerto with Berkeley Symphony Mason Bates made his mark as a composer by breathing a fresh energy with the addition of electronic beats in his orchestral works. A composer for the symphony by day, he moonlights as
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews Berkeley Symphony Music Director Joana Carneiro Where we interview music symphony director Joana Carneiro, review the Philharmonia Baroque performance of Rossini's The Marriage Contract and Stanford Live's world premiere re-creation of The Demo. In 1991, then-Berkeley Symphony Music Director
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: SF Symphony Cellist Peter Wyrick On Thursday, the Berkeley Symphony will borrow a seasoned musician from across the Bay rather than import a teenage mutant prodigy soloist. Peter Wyrick, whose regular gig is associate principal cellist with the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: Berkeley Symphony Director Rene Mandel When the NY Times did a feature on musicians who became directors and managers of their orchestra, they forgot to include Rene Mandel. We're too ochre to compete with the Gray Lady, but
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: Pulitzer Prize-Winning Composer Steven Stucky Steven Stucky is the composer-in-residence for the '12-'13 season of the Berkeley Symphony, and the orchestra will premiere his latest: The Stars and the Roses, a trio of poems by Czesław Miłosz set
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: Pianist Shai Wosner The Berkeley Symphony and its music director Joana Carneiro won't shy away from the unorthodox and the challenging. This is why Thursday night they're welcoming Shai Wosner to join them in György Ligeti's
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Holy Sisters' at the Berkeley Symphony Billed as a "Hungarian Excursion," the season finale of the Berkeley symphony was mostly for us a trek to the East Bay: we had meant to check out the orchestra since the relatively
