Milky Ways was commissioned by the Finnish Radio, BBC Radio 3 and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra

No Such Spring by Samuel Adams, an SF Symphony commission, received its world premiere on Feb. 23. The pianist was soloist Conor Hanick, a specialist in new music.

Psycho: A Narrative for String Orchestra proves that even without Alfred Hitchcock’s iconic film, Bernard Herrmann’s ominous score slashes with vivid effect all the way up to the most infamous shower scene in cinema.

Learn more about 54-year-old composer Trevor Weston

A brilliant musician and visionary, pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard's approach to Classical and Romantic music is often in demand with leading composers as collaborator and interpreter. We hear him collaborate with conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen on 8/23 @ 8pm.

Ferocious, haunting, serene, searching, Anna Clyne’s Sound and Fury takes inspiration from the emotionally fraught verses of Shakespeare’s Macbeth.

Ivan Hewett of The Telegraph describes the violinist like this, “Pekka Kuusisto…surely has the most personal sound of any classical violinist now alive”

Born in London in 1984, composer Hannah Kendall graduated from the University of Exeter with First Class Honours in Music, and completed a Masters in Advanced Composition with Distinction from the Royal College of Music. We'll hear her new commission by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Tuxedo: Vasco de Gama.

Commissioned by the New York Philharmonic and performed last April under the baton of Esa-Pekka Salonen, Metacosmos is already on the roster of many of the world's leading orchestras, including the San Francisco Symphony.