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The Bay Area Rainbow Symphony (BARS) presents their 2009-2010 Season Gala, To Music, as they celebrate the most "gracious Art" under the baton of Daniel Canosa, artistic director. The evening showcases works from John Corigliano, Rachmaninoff and Dvorak. Learn more...

MDC's World Premiere features many new works from Bay Area choreographers including Bryon Heinrich and David Fonnegra. From pieces set to "One Night Only," from Dream Girls to John Phillips Sousa to Tchaikovsky. With special guests Shawn Kirchner & Ryan Harrison and The Lollipop Guild (of San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus) and more. Learn more...

The San Francisco Conservatory of Music will be filled with the sounds of perhaps the best-known symphony in history as the Pacific Chamber Symphony performs Beethoven's Fifth. The instantly familiar four-note introduction leads into one of classical music's most beloved and influential masterpieces, which gradually transitions from dark foreboding to triumphant celebration. Learn more...

Grammy Award-winning ensemble Chanticleer, called "the world's reigning male chorus" by the New Yorker, celebrates their thirty-first season with a concert of works by composers around thirty years of age. They've commissioned choral music from rising stars Mason Bates, Shawn Crouch and Tarik O'Regan. Learn more...

The Pacific Chamber Symphony performs at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Led by Maestro Lawrence Kohl, the acclaimed ensemble performs Schubert's exquisitely melodic Serenade for winds and strings, as well as Stravinsky's evocative Soldier's Tale, which tells the story of a military man's battle with the Devil. Learn more...

After wowing Bay Area audiences with her San Francisco Symphony debut in 2007, this 20-year-old French pianist now makes her first recital appearance. De la Salle limits her performances, resulting in unflaggingly high artistic standards and much audience anticipation. Learn more...

Pacific Chamber Symphony presents Whirlwind: Suites and Serenades for Orchestral Winds by Mozart, Beethoven, Strauss and Dvorák. The concert will take place at San Francisco Conservatory of Music and be conducted by Lawrence Kohl. Learn more...

The second annual Milton and Peggy Salkind 2nd International Piano Duo Festival features a concert of rarely-heard works composed for two pianos and percussion. This fascinating concert features works by Bartok, Okunev, and Ogura. Learn more...

The Milton and Peggy Salkind 2nd International Piano Duo Festival closes with this concert, featuring a showcase of works composed for two pianos and performed by virtuoso duos. Composers include Rachmaninoff, Ravel, Piazzolla, and many more. Learn more...

The 2008 Salkind Festival will present a series of concerts featuring an eclectic mix of traditional and innovative compositions for piano duo and also highlight a variety of seldom-heard ensemble works for piano duo with other instruments and voices. This concert and seminar on Carl Czerny, Beyond the Art of Finger Dexterity, will feature three works by the composer. Learn more...

This concert, a part of the Milton and Peggy Salkind 2nd International Piano Duo Festival, features music written for two pianos by composers who lived in Vienna. A variety of virtuoso dous from around the globe will play works by Mozart, Schubert, Brahms, Czerny, Schumann, and Liszt. Learn more...

The Golden Gate Men's Chorus will heat up the summer by exploring The Bond of Love featuring not one, but two West Coast Premieres of works by composers David Del Tredici and Steven Sametz. The men of the chorus sing in a dramatic performance hall created in a renovated, historic grand ballroom with acoustics of a glorious concert hall. Learn more...

Fresh from a New York Philharmonic debut, young American mezzo Isabel Leonard is on her way to stardom. Avidly watched by the likes of James Levine, Barbara Bonney and Marilyn Horne, she excels in dramatic repertoire from opera and musical theater to the fine art of the song recital. She'll be performing songs by composers ranging from Rachmaninoff to Gershwin and Porter. Learn more...

Finnish composer/pianist Magnus Lindberg and cellist/collaborator Anssi Karttunen make their San Francisco recital debuts. Their program features duets and piano and cello solos by Lindberg--twelve original works in all. Surprisingly lesser known as a consummate pianist and chamber musician, Lindberg is among today's most highly regarded and admired composers of orchestral music. Learn more...