Arts & Entertainment SF High School Freshman to Be Honored at NY's Jazz at Lincoln Center After Winning Prestigious National Competition 15-year-old San Francisco native Ethan Liao already played Carnegie Hall this year, and now he’s headed back to New York to Jazz at Lincoln Center after his new composition won a top national prize. We’ve got a taste of his very notable sounds.
Arts & Entertainment 78-Member, All LGBTQ+ International Pride Orchestra Performing First Ever Concert Thursday Night You may not have ever seen the New York Philharmonic or the Metropolitan Opera, but you can see some of their musicians perform live, as the brand new International Pride Orchestra debuts Thursday with an all-star cast of all LGBTQ+ musicians in an event hosted by Peaches Christ.
Arts & Entertainment Anthony Reed Hosts Operatronica, And SFist Reviews 'La Traviata' and 'Echoes' Scroll below for two classical music reviews from the past weekend: Traviata at SF Opera and Echoes with the Kronos Quartet. This season, Operatronica will blend exactly what its ungainly portmanteau says it
Arts & Entertainment SF Symphony Celebrates Oktoberfest With Resident Conductor Christian Reif SF Symphony Resident Conductor Christian Reif. Photo by Terrence McCarthy/SF Symphony. To coincide with the last day of Oktoberfest in Munich, the SF Symphony hosts on Tuesday its own version of the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Daniel Hope Partners With The New Century Chamber Orchestra The New Century Chamber Orchestra opened its season with a new concertmaster, violinist Daniel Hope. The match would rank a 97% on OkCupid, if the orchestra's profile had checked: handsome, passionate, artistic, good
Arts & Entertainment Exclusive: Mezzo-Soprano Isabel Leonard Discusses Leonard Bernstein Leonard Bernstein would have turned 100 next year. He and SF Symphony musical director Michael Tilson-Thomas were buddies. Lenny considered MTT his musical son. Not coincidentally, the Symphony will present a slew of
Arts & Entertainment SF Symphony Opening Night Gala Features Yo-Yo Ma, And A Rousing 'Bolero' The SF Symphony Gala kicked off the orchestra's season on Thursday night, later in September than usual as MTT was on tour with the Vienna Symphony orchestra. Often enough, classical music is a
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 SF Society Season Kicks Off With Opera Ball, Opening Night Of 'Turandot' This Friday, September 8, opens the 95th season for San Francisco Opera with the opening night of a production of Puccini’s Turandot originally staged by English artist David Hockney, directed by Garnett
Arts & Entertainment SF Opera's Merola Program Produces Endless Cinderella Stories Just like in the Cinderella story, through the Merola Opera Program, some young and deserving singers are plucked from obscurity by a kind fairy, they get 10 weeks to come to San Francisco
Arts & Entertainment SF Symphony Closes Out Season With Berlioz's 'Romeo and Juliet' Over last weekend, the SF Symphony ended its 2016-17 season with some fireworks: a dazzling performance of Berlioz's Romeo and Juliet. Like his Requiem, Romeo and Juliet is an odd bird, a choral
Arts & Entertainment Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg Departs New Century Chamber Orchestra After nine years as artistic director, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg is leaving the SF-based New Century Chamber Orchestra. She has earned, and the ensemble has organized, a farewell festival with three concerts: one of contemporary
Arts & Entertainment SFist's Week in Classical Music This week's lineup of classical music events for you to consider: I was sad to miss Sasha Cooke with the Berkeley Symphony last week in a premiere by Jake Heggie. I liked her
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: Conductor Lionel Bringuier I was shocked when I found out that French conductor Lionel Bringuier, who makes his San Francisco Symphony debut tonight, performed live on French TV as a 14-year-old boy for the Victoires de
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews A Flutist! The Center for New Music opened roughly a year ago at the edge of the 'loin to foster a community around new music in San Francisco. What is new music? It's hard to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Trouble In Tahiti' & 'Winterreise' Two one-act mini-operas staged in April by Ensemble Parallele (Leonard Bernstein's Trouble in Tahiti and Barber's Hand of Bridge) at Z Space showed couples wallowing in conjugal misery and midlife crisis. Yet, through
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: Battle Hymns Composer David Lang We last heard David Lang's music when San Francisco Lyric Opera staged his Little Match Girl Passion at OCD Theater. That piece has brought Lang plenty of recognition. As he described it in
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Hahn/Lisitsa, Hope/Kahane at SF Performances. In an SF Performances recital on Saturday night, violinist Hilary Hahn and her accompanist Valentina Lisitsa put together a set of pieces that had nothing in common, except for the mastery of the
Arts & Entertainment This Week in Classical Music: Juho Pohjonen, Avner Dorman This week in Classical: Juho Pohjonen with SF Performances, Avner Dorman's Uriah with the SF Symphony, and accounting for the SF Opera For SF Performances's piano recital last night, Juho Pohjonen accepted at
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: Composer John Adams Berkeley composer John Adams's oratorio El Niño had its US premiere at Davies Symphony Hall ten years ago next month. The reviews were unanimously enthusiastic. El Niño, like Handel's Messiah, is a musical
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews Pianist Adam Tendler Pianist Adam Tendler will perform John Cage's Sonatas and Interlude, a set of music for prepared piano. John Cage was an avant-garde music composer who pushed the boundaries of music. In 1952, inspired
Arts & Entertainment This Weekend in Classical Music A few concerts for the week-end: Stanford Lively Arts presents the West Coast premiere of Uri Caine's The Othello Syndrome, based upon Verdi's opera Othello. We have tried to get into Uri's reinterpretation
Arts & Entertainment Fall Music Preview: Classical Edition The Fall music season has been launched in orbit with a glitzy gala at the Symphony. This week continues with classical music galore: the other heavy hitter, the SF Opera introduces his new
Arts & Entertainment <i>Star Wars</i> Concert Coming Hey, fans! Listen up. Yet another way for you to enjoy that sci-fi story about Princess Leia and those adorable Ewoks is coming. A touring production of George Lucas' famous and much-loved films
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Schubert Lied, Berg Too The SF Symphony journey from Schubert to Berg continued on Wednesday with an intimate exploration of some lieder and chamber music, as well as the Lulu suite. The directions for the voyage (which
