Reviews & Articles

• Adler concert, SF Chronicle & SFCV, November, 2024
• Holiday classical preview, S.F. Chronicle, November, 2024
• Conor Hanick plays Ustvolskaya; Other Minds at Freight & Salvage, SFCV, October, 2024
• Tristan und Isolde review, SF Chronicle and SFCV, October, 2024
• Eun Sun Kim contract renewal, SF Chronicle, October, 2024
• Tristan und Isolde preview, SF Chronicle and SFCV, October, 2024
• Eun Sun Kim: A Journey into Lohengrin, SF Chronicle, October, 2024
• Nicholas Phan and Jake Heggie in recital, SFCV, October, 2024
• Backstage at San Francisco Opera, SFCV, September, 2024
•  Harawi, AMOC, Cal Performance, SFCV, September, 2024
• New Hires and Retirements at SFS, SFCV, September, 2024
• The Handmaid's Tale, SF Opera; SF Chronicle and SFCV, September, 2024
• Un ballo in maschera, SF Opera; Chronicle, September, 2024
• Letter from Santa Fe, SFCV, August, 2024
• Cabrillo Festival, "Parade", SFCV, July, 2024
• Don Giovanni, Merola Opera, SFCV, July, 2024
• The Abduction from the Seraglio, Festival Napa Valley, Opera Magazine, July, 2024
• Valley of the Moon Festival, "The Americas", SFCV, July, 2024
• Diversity Report Card, SFCV, July, 2024
• Salonen conducts Mahler Symphony No. 3, SFS; SF Chronicle, June, 2024
• Salonen conducts Schumann and Bruckner, SFS; SF Chronicle, June, 2024
• Fellow Travelers, Opera Parallèle, SFCV, June, 2024
• The Electronic Lover, SFCV, June, 2024
• Partenope at San Francisco Opera; SF Chronicle, June, 2024
• Ma Mère l'Oye and Erwartung at SFS/Salonen; SFCV, June, 2024
• Innocence at SF Opera; SFCV, June, 2024
• The Magic Flute at SF Opera; SF Chronicle, May, 2024
• Summer, 2024, preview, SF Chronicle, May, 2024
• SF Contemporary Music Players, Pierrot RE:wind, SFCV, April, 2024
• Danish String Quartet Plays Schubert and Adès, SFCV, April, 2024
• As Salonen Steps Down, Speculating on the Future Artistic Leadership at SFS, with Janos Gereben, SFCV, March, 2024
• Kronos Five Decades, Cal Performances, SFCV, March, 2024
• Erin Morley and Malcolm Martineau recital, Cal Performances, SFCV, February, 2024
• Wild Up Performs Julius Eastman at Stanford Live, SFCV, February, 2024
• Eco Ensemble: The Music of Cindy Cox, Cal Performances, SFCV February, 2024
• Raehann Bryce-Davis at SF Performances, SFCV, January, 2024
• Dalia Stasevka at SFS (Dvorak and Beethoven), SFCV, January, 2024
• Sarah Cahill at Old First Church, SFCV, January, 2024
• SF Symphony Cutbacks: Incidental or Significant? News article on SoundBox and SFS's finances, with Janos Gereben, SFCV, January, 2024
• Dido's Ghost, at Philharmonia Baroque. SFS, November, 2023.
• From the Edge: Smith & Stravinsky at SFS, November, 2023, SFCV
• Omar, San Francisco Opera,  SFCV. November, 2023
• The Emissary, Opera Parallèle, October, 2023, SFCV
• The JACK Quartet plays music of John Luther Adams, SF Performances, SFCV, October, 2023
• Lohengrin, San Francisco Opera; SFCV, October, 2023
• Arrivals and Departures at San Francisco Symphony, SFCV, September, 2023
• Arturo Chacon-Cruz profile, Opera News, September, 2023 (Paywall)
• The Supernatural Season: Report from Santa Fe, SFCV, August, 2023
• SF Symphony and Musicians in Search of Harmony, SFCV, July, 2023
• El último sueño de Frida y Diego, San Francisco Opera, SFCV,  June, 2023
• Adriana Mater, Kaija Saariaho, San Francisco Symphony, June, 2023
• The Shining, Opera Parallèle, SFCV, June, 2023
• Die Frau ohne Schatten, SF Opera, Opera News, June, 2023
• JoAnn Falletta spotlight, SFCV, May, 2023
• Her Story, by Julia Wolfe, San Francisco Symphony, May, 2023; SFCV.
• Octavia E. Butler's The Parable of the Sower, by Toshi Reagon and Bernice Johnson Reagon, Cal Performances, May, 2023
• Blank Out, by Michel van der Aa, April, 2023, SFCV
• Trio Medieval, Lumen de Lumine, April, 2023, SFCV
• Osmo Vänskä conducts Brahms, Shin, Sibelius at the LA Phil, April, 2023, SFCV
• Prospero's Island, March, 2023, SFCV
• Castalian String Quartet: Haydn, Saariaho, Schubert, March, 2023, SFCV
• Thomas Conlin and the Vallejo Festival Orchestra in Sibelius, March, 2023, SFCV
• What Gets the Pros Riled Up About Tár? February, 2023, SFCV
• Claire Chase is Pan, February, 2023, SFCV
• SFSoundBox: Pekka Kuuisisto & Jesper Nordin, February, 2023, SFCV
• Opera Paralléle: Everest: An Immersive. Experience; February, 2023, SFCV.
• SFS/Outwater: Kahane, emergency shelter intake form; Gershwin, Piano Concerto in F (Tao), SF Chronicle
• SFS:Ticciati/Widmann Violin Concerto (Ibragimova); Mahler 4 (Ying Fang). January, 2023, SFCV
• Dido Reimagined: Dawn Upshaw & the Brentano String Quartet; January, 2023, SFCV
• Digging into the SF Opera Archive; December, 2022, SFCV.
• SFS: MTT/Elfman, Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, November, 2022. SFCV.
• Dialogues of the Carmelites, SFO; October, 2022. Opera News.
• SFS: Salonen/Weston, Mahler with DeYoung, Schultz, September, 2022. SFCV
• Antony & Cleopatra, John Adams world premiere, SFO, September, 2022
• When the Star Cancels, Opera History is Made, SFCV, September, 2022
• Adams, Stucky, Sibelius at SFS, June, 2022
• Dream of the Red Chamber at SF Opera, June, 2022 (Opera News)
• La Belle et la Bête, Opera Parallele, SFCV
• Stravinsky; Oedipus rex and Symphony of Psalms, Salonen/Sellars
• Don Giovanni at SF Opera, June, 2022 (Opera News)
• Julia Bullock: History's Persistent Voice, May, 2022
• SFS: Karina Canellakis; R. Strauss, L. Boulanger, Lutoslawski, May, 2022
• Gustavo Dudamel at SFS (Mozart, Mahler), April, 2022
• Nikola Printz Schwabacher Recital, March, 2022
• Otello, Livermore Valley Opera, SFCV, March, 2022
• Cosi fan tutte, SF Opera, Opera News, November, 2021
• Dido and Aeneas, Opera San José, Opera News, November, 2021
• Fidelio, SF Opera, Opera News, October, 2021
• Tosca, SF Opera, Opera News, August, 2021
• desert in review, SFCV, June, 2021
• SFS: Salonen/Hadelich; Strauss, Kidane, Brahms, SF Chron, June, 2021
• SFS: Blomstedt/Berwald and Brahms, February, 2020
• SFS: MTT/Wolfe, Beethoven, Wagner, Berg, January, 2020
• Four Orpheus Operas at ENO, London, November, 2019
• Adams, R. Schumann, Rachmaninov at SFS, with MTT, September, 2019
• The Thirteenth Child, Santa Fe Opera world premiere, August, 2019
• Cabrillo, August,  2019: Tan Dun, Lash, Fung, Antonsen
• Touring the World with Les Troyens: Interview with Brandon Jovanovich and Christian Van Horn, February, 2019
• Music at Versailles, February, 2019.
• SF Contemporary Music Players, January, 2019.
• Ars Minerva: Porta's Ifegenia en Aulide, December, 2018.
• Brooklyn Rider in New Music and Beethoven. November, 2018.
• Letter from Paris, October, 2018. Tristan, Bérénice, Les Huguenots reviewed.
• Der Ring des Nibelungen at SF Opera, SFCV, June, 2018
• Apollo's Fire: L'Orfeo, SFCV, April 2018
• Lawrence Brownlee in Recital, SFCV, April, 2018
• ODC and Volti: Path of Miracles, SFCV, February, 2018
• St. Lawrence String Quartet plays Adams, Adams, and Adams, SFCV, February, 2018
• ZOFOMOMA, two piano excitement. SFCV, January, 2018
• Claire Chase gives an incredible recital. SFCV, December, 2017
• Girls of the Golden West world premiere, SFO, SFCV, November, 2017
• Elektra Inspires and Rewards Endlessly, SFCV, October, 2017
• Christine Goerke profile, SFCV, September, 2017
• Cabrillo 2017, August, 2017
• Les Enfants Terribles, Opera Parallele, May, 2017
• Marc Minkowski profile, Early Music America, May 22, 2017
• Roomful of Teeth, SF Opera Lab, April 23, 2017
• SF Choral Artists, March 28, 2017
• Anna Caterina Antonacci at SF OperaLab, March 2017
• Jordi Savall and Hesperion XXI, January 2017
• Mahler at SF Symphony, January 2017
• Aida, SF Opera, November, 2016
• The Makropulos Case, SF Opera, October, 2016
• Cabrillo Festival: JC Adams & Others, August, 2016
• Don Carlo, June, 2016, SFCV
• Carmen, May, 2016, CVNA
• The Lighthouse, May, 2016, SFCV
• Stile Antico, April, 2016, SFCV
• Letter from Bayreuth, September, 2015, SFCV
• Versailles & the French Baroque, American Bach Soloists, August 2015, SFCV
• La Ciociara, Tutino; SF Opera, June, 2015, SFCV
• Les Troyens, Berlioz; SF Opera, June, 2015, SFCV
• Heart of Darkness, Opera Parallele, May, 2015, SFCV
• Britten's Curlew River at Cal Performances, November, 2014, SFCV
• Hagen Quartet in Mozart, Shostakovich, and Brahms, November, 2014, SFCV
• Un Ballo in Maschera at SFO, October, 2014, in the Chron
• Dolores Claiborne at SFO, September, 2013
• Norman, Chapela, Glass at Cabrillo, August, 2013
• Glass, Cello Concerto No. 2, CD Review (Davies/Cincinnati Symphony, Haimovitz)
• San Francisco Opera: The Gospel of Mary Magdalene, June, 2013
• San Francisco Opera: The Secret Garden, March, 2013
• San Francisco Symphony, Mozart & Bruckner, February, 2013
• San Francisco Symphony, Poulenc & Berlioz, February, 2013
• Alexander Quartet in Bartok & Britten, January, 2013
• Einstein on the Beach, October, 2012
• I Capuleti, SF Opera, September, 2012
• Rigoletto, SF Opera, September, 2012
• Cabrillo Festival, "Rose of the Winds," Aug. 11, 2012
• Nixon in China, SF Opera, June, 2012
• American Bach Soloists Easter Oratorio, May, 2012
• Janacek & Debussy at SFS, January, 2012
• BSO, Ludovic Morlot, December, 2011
• Berlin Philharmonic CD Mládí Review
• Calder Quartet and Thomas Adès; Mostly Adès, Oct., 2011
• Verdi Requiem, Conlon/SFS, Oct., 2011
• Quintetto Latino, September, 2011
• Missa Solemnis, SFS, June, 2011
• Ring Cycle I, SF Opera, June, 2011
• Mahler's Second Symphony, SFS, May, 2011
• Osmo Vanska at SFS, April, 2011
• Lettere Amorose: CD Review, January, 2011
• Brahms/Bronfman, Berg at SFS, November, 2010
• SF Opera, The Makropulos Case, November, 2010
• Urban Opera, The Witch of Endor, 10/30/2010
• SF Symphony, French Classics, 10/02/2010
• EUOUAE, Messe de Tournai, 8/13/2010
• Die Walküre, San Francisco Opera, 6/10/2010
• Thomas Ades, 3/16/2010
• New Century Chamber Orchestra, 3/5/2010
• SF Symphony Chamber Music, 1/18/2010
• Interview with Patricia Racette, September, 2009
• Rene Jacobs/Haydn Symphonies CD, June, 2009
• Chamber Music Soc. of Lincoln Center with Stephanie Blythe
• Takacs Quartet with Peter Wyrick, 3/09
• Alexander String Quartet, 2/14/09
• Sarah Cahill, piano, 1/25/09
• William Eddins at the Berkeley Symphony, 10/23/2008
• Simon Boccanegra, San Francisco Opera, 9/4/08
• Adriana Mater, Santa Fe Opera, 7/26/08
• SF Symphony: Lindberg, Debussy, Beethoven, 6/20/08
• Le Poem Harmonique, Berkeley Festival, 6/5/08
• Music of Stefano Scodanibbio, sfSoundGroup, 5/18/08
• Emerson Quartet, 2/6/08
• Ashkenazy, Ehnes at SFS, 2/1/08
• Pacifica Quartet, Stanford, 1/09/08
• Sibelius Unbound, Los Angeles Philharmonic, 11/6/07
• Jenufa, Los Angeles Opera, 10/11/07
• Appomattox, San Francisco Opera, 10/5/07
• Philip Glass, Philip Glass, Philip Glass, 9/28/07
• Tales of Hoffman, SF Lyric Opera, 9/22/07
• Bates, Ades, Glass at Cabrillo, 8/11/07
• Daugherty and Corigliano at Cabrillo, 8/4/07
• Don Giovanni at SFO, 6/2/07
• Berlioz, Debussy, Dukas at SFS, 2/7/07
• NCCO & Melody Moore, 1/25/07
• Berkeley Symphony: "Hold On", 1/07
• Berkeley Symphony with Jane Eaglen, 6/21/06
• Ravel, Bartok, Mussorgsky at SFS, 1/13/06
• Stravinsky Opera Double Bill at SFS, 12/9/05
• Fidelio at the SF Opera, 11/9/05
• Von Otter and Forsberg at Zellerbach, 10/19/05
• Beethoven and Schubert; Music@Menlo
• Beethoven, Schumann, Brahms; Music@Menlo
• Potted Meistersinger, Berkeley Opera
• Linda Watson at the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra
• R. Strauss at the S.F. Symphony
• Mozart, Dohnanyi, & Brahms: California Piano Quartet
• Mahler, Bunch, Beethoven at OEBS
• Berio, Thomas, Janacek at SFS
• Runnicles Birthday Gala, November, 2004
• Adams & Beethoven at SFS, 10/20/04
• Stravinsky and Tchaikowsky at SFS, 9/22/04
• Music in the Vineyards, 8/14/04
• Letter from Europe, July, 2004
• SF Choral Society, April, 2004
• SF Choral Artists, 3/27/2004
• Legend of the Ring, Berkeley Opera, March 2004
• Schubert, Brahms, Blomstedt at SFS, 2/6/04