Music

Internationally acclaimed singer/songwriter Joshua Radin and iconic indie duo The Weepies team up this fall in a tour presented by Sirius XM's The Coffee House with special guest, Lily Kershaw.

One of the world’s foremost chamber ensembles, the Shanghai Quartet’s elegant style melds the delicacy of Eastern music with the emotional breadth of Western repertoire, allowing it to traverse musical genres including traditional Chinese folk music, masterpieces of Western music, and cutting-edge contemporary works.

Founded in 1979 as an offshoot of the Westwind International Folk Ensemble, Kitka began as a grassroots group of amateur singers from diverse ethnic and musical backgrounds who shared a passion for the stunning dissonances, asymmetric rhythms, intricate ornamentation, and resonant strength of traditional Eastern European women’s vocal music.

Drummer and composer Kendrick Scott kicked off his Blue Note contract four years ago with We Are The Drum, earning rave reviews and reiterating how Oracle, Scott’s long-running working group, is one of the most thoughtfully powerful jazz bands of its generation. 

Playing works by Rachmaninoff and Beethoven, the Steinway Society is proud to present prize-winning Ukrainian-American pianist Anna Dmytrenko.

In 2017, Quiana Lynell made her salient mark on the jazz-and-beyond musical world as a wise, heartfelt, warm vocalist whose voice is singular in its soul, intensity, and outright spiritual courage.

Storm Large: musician, actor, playwright, author, awesome. For the 2018-19 season, Storm performs her one-woman autobiographical musical memoir Crazy Enough, a “ballsy, heartbreaking, hysterical tour de force.” (Chelsea Cain)

Storm Large: musician, actor, playwright, author, awesome. For the 2018-19 season, Storm performs her one-woman autobiographical musical memoir Crazy Enough, a “ballsy, heartbreaking, hysterical tour de force.” (Chelsea Cain)

A winner of several top competitions, the Steinway Society presents renowned Russian-American artist Daria Rabotkina. Rabotkina’s program includes pieces by Schubert, Beethoven, Griffes, and Aurandt.

Tonight we celebrate Ray Charles, a Georgia native son and American treasure who won every major honor from the Georgia Music Hall of Fame to the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Few musicians embody the spontaneous energy of jazz like Matt Wilson. The New York-based drummer combines buoyant zeal, idiosyncratic style, infectious humor, joyous swing, and an indomitable spirit of surprise.

Two leading chamber ensembles join forces for a program that combines their high-energy virtuosity and brilliant programming. The concert features a new work composed by Catalyst Quartet violinist, Jessie Montgomery, that was inspired by her great-grandfather’s experience during the Great Migration in the United States.

Sheléa’s sultry sound is an exciting oasis in an age of auto-tune; blending traditional pop, jazz, R&B, and soul, she brings a contemporary edge to classics and a classic touch to contemporary pop standards.

Award-winning saxophonist Melissa Aldana joins Black Cab Jazz to bring her experiences and influences from Santiago, Chile, and the US East Coast to San José.