SF Bay Area

Richard S. Ginell - July 20, 2026

Andrew Megill has it both ways in Carmel, pairing pointed Bach cantatas with a candlelit collage of Rilke-inspired choral music.

Richard S. Ginell - July 14, 2026

The festival's opening weekend stretches Carmel's ears with collages of old and new.

Jeff Kaliss - July 7, 2026

Film-score superstar A.R. Rahman turns a symphony concert into an ecstatic, genre-blurring spectacle.

Andrew Gilbert - July 7, 2026

Trumpeter Steven Bernstein brings his genre-devouring quartet back to its Bay Area roots for a four-night SFJAZZ residency.

Jens Ibsen - June 30, 2026

A community choir's ambitious program — Philip Glass, Frank Martin, and Maurice Duruflé — proves that amateur singers can achieve the sublime.

Jeff Kaliss - June 23, 2026

At the Healdsburg Jazz Festival, Branford Marsalis delivered a joyous set with a bottle of Cabernet on the side.

Audition for Pacific Edge Voices! Aug 16 in Berkeley

Come sing with Pacific Edge Voices (PEV)!

You like to sing Bach and Handel and live for a big group melisma. But you also love to float in the lush harmonic pool that is Lauridsen or Whitacre. Oh, but minor seconds are fun, too, like smooth Gene Puerling arrangements or beat-boxing Pentatonix tunes. But really, at the end of the day, what you are belting in your car is Lizzo and Hamilton. For you, music is music is music is music — especially when done well with a great community of committed amateur singers.