Another husband-and-wife cello-and-piano duo are preparing to take over the chamber festival starting in summer 2027.

Your cheat sheet to great music festivals across California and the West.

Quite without the mobility of the young, I was nonetheless able to travel from Paris to Atherton, California, to the San Francisco Civic Center of the future last Friday. Within a few hours, I watched a live performance of Jakub Józef Orlinski…

Yerba Buena Gardens Festival | May 4 – Oct. 17 SongFest | May 30 – June 21 San Francisco Opera Summer Season | May 30 – June 30 Mountain Play | June 2–16 San Francisco Jazz Festival | June 5–16 Ojai Music Festival | June 6–9 Britt Music & Arts…

Joyeux vingt-deuxième anniversaire, Musique@Menlo ! We may as well greet Music@Menlo’s 22nd season in French because it’s called “French Reflections” and will cover French music over the centuries, from Baroque masterpieces through impressionism, as…

Chamber music is played mostly in small venues (since the days of royal chambers), which — limits income — just one reason why starting and maintaining a chamber music festival is a demanding task, seldom succeeding. A heartening alternative is…

A master teacher and prominent musician who had vital connections with Bay Area organizations and found widespread activity and fame around the world, violinist Jorja Fleezanis died on Saturday, Sept. 10 at age 70. San Francisco Symphony Music…

The first full season since the pandemic will be filled with accomplished artists and the music of Joseph Haydn.

Pending the pandemic, look for in-person performances at the Spieker Center, with livestreams for each program, too.

Much of California and the San Francisco Bay Area went into another strict lockdown Monday as COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths keep mounting in the U.S. and many countries, but fearless musicians travel and perform — taking utmost care to protect…

Travel is the lifeblood of music, and until this year we saw guest artists from hither and yon visting the SF Symphony, SF Opera, Cal Performances, SF Performances, and listened to the buzzing of the Bay by the Freeway Philharmonic. Until recently,…

The New York Daily News headline on Friday — “Broadway extends shutdown through May 2021 as Great White Way remains dark” — is sending shivers down the spine of performers and audiences alike. “The show won’t go on along the Great White Way until the…

There won’t be much live music in the Bay Area this summer.

As COVID-19 rages on, the best way to keep track of cancellations would be to list opera-symphony-ballet-chamber music still scheduled — but then that would immediately change as the other list is becoming a global, all-encompassing itemization of…

“The Little Festival That Could” is hitting its stride with Season 18, July 17–Aug. 8, fervently hoping that normalcy will return by then and that COVID-19 will be just a bad memory. As is its wont, Music@Menlo has a theme, and this time, it’s the…

How did Stephen Sondheim and his Pacific Overtures enter the scene? The time: Saturday evening. The place: Music@Menlo, listening to the Adagio of Josef Suk’s Piano Quartet in A Minor, Op. 1, and pondering Sondheim’s statement on the relationship…

This summer’s roster is organized around seven incomparable eras in the evolution of chamber repertory.

Rarities and a West-Coast premiere highlight two centuries of music from Russia’s cultural hub.

Music@Menlo’s 16th season in Atherton and Menlo Park, July 13–Aug. 4, will be a virtual tour of seven European cities: London, Paris, St. Petersburg, Leipzig, Berlin, Budapest, and Vienna. Each of these cultural epicenters will anchor one of the…