Palo Alto classical events

West Bay Opera's Otello

Friday, May 24 8:00p

Lucie Stern Community Theatre, Palo Alto

West Bay Opera's all new staging of Otello, a collaboration across the centuries by two great geniuses of the stage: Verdi and Shakespeare...

Afiara String Quartet & Cecilia String Quartet

Sunday, May 19 2:30p

Bing Concert Hall, Stanford

The Afiara and Cecilia String Quartets, first introduced to campus through Stanford’s own St. Lawrence String Quartet, collaborate on a unique program of works for quintet and octet...

Robert Henke: Dust

Friday, May 24 9:00p

Bing Concert Hall, Stanford

Berlin-based artist Robert Henke brings Dust to the Bing Concert Hall Studio, an exploration of textures and very slow movements of seemingly static sonic material, shredded into particles...

Redwood Symphony to offer Sweeney Todd in two performances

Saturday, Jun 1 8:00p

Cañada College Main Theatre, Woodside

Stephen Sondheim’s rollicking Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, will be presented by Redwood Symphony in two semi-staged performances Saturday, June 1, at 8 p.m...

Dr. L. Subramaniam Global Fusion with Larry Coryell

Thursday, Jun 20 8:00p

Yoshi's San Francisco Live Music & Restaurant, San Francisco

Subramaniam, India’s violin icon, “The Paganini of Indian Classical music”, “the God of Indian Violin” is the serenity of an Indian musician combined with the magnetism of a western “star”...

The Artist Sessions: Christopher O'Riley

Wednesday, May 29 8:00p

Yoshi's San Francisco Live Music & Restaurant, San Francisco

Since the triumphant release of True Love Waits, pianist Christopher O’Riley’s reimagining of works by Radiohead, Elliott Smith and Nick Drake have garnered critical accolades and international acc...

Salon Classique

Monday, May 20 7:00p

The Pearson Theatre, Berkeley

World-renowned Berkeley-based Meyer Sound kindly opens the doors to its usually private Pearson Theatre, a masterpiece of acoustic architecture and state-of-the-art sound technology, for a performa...

Music of Robert Dick

Saturday, May 18 8:00p

Trinity Chapel, Berkeley

With equally deep roots in classical music old and new and in free improvisation and new jazz, flutist and composer Robert Dick has established himself as an artist who has not only mastered, but r...

Bach and the Romantics: Keyboard Conversations with Jeffrey Siegel

Thursday, May 23 7:30p

Oshman Family JCC, Palo Alto

Virtuoso, emotionally high voltage, dramatic works of Bach and Bach-inspired compositions by such diverse composers as Mozart, Rachmaninoff, Liszt, Shostakovich, and Felix Mendelssohn, - the Jewish...

Free Fortnightly Music Concert

Sunday, May 19 7:00p

Lucie Stern Community Center, Palo Alto

Free Fortnightly Music Concert featuring works of Bach, Ernst, Dvorak, Bizet, Liszt, Chopin, and Debussy - performed by local artists for local artists...

New Century Chamber Orchestra Presents Lera Auerbach World Premiere

Friday, May 24 8:00p

First United Methodist Church, Palo Alto

Music Director Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg and the New Century Chamber Orchestra present a world premiere commission by Featured Composer Lera Auerbach.

American Anthem

Sunday, Jun 2 3:00p

First Congregational Church of Palo Alto, Palo Alto

The Congregational Oratorio Society, conducted by Gregory Wait, performs stirring anthems and spirituals by American composers such as Aaron Copland, Moses Hogan, Gene Scheer, and Morten Lauridsen...

Sinfonia of the Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra

Sunday, Jun 2 3:00p

Cubberley Community Center Theater, Palo Alto

Come see young talent from the San Francisco Peninsula shine as the winners of the 2013 PACO Concerto Competition are showcased in this signature event...

10th Anniversary Organ Concert

Sunday, Jun 9 4:00p

First Lutheran Church, Palo Alto

This is the final concert of First Lutheran Church's 2012-13 4@1st Series, a celebration the 10th anniversary of the installation of the Casavant organ built especially for First Lutheran Church...