San Diego’s performing arts community offers a dizzying array of opportunities to enjoy world-class performances by talented artists in every type and genre of music and art. But many classical music ...

Spotlighting works from the medieval, Renaissance, baroque and early classical periods, the series’ 45 th season begins next month and will feature: A preshow talk will begin half an hour before each ...

Bach Collegium San DiegoMany people might think a trumpet from the Baroque period is just an old trumpet. But the instruments from that era, roughly from 1600 to 1750, differ greatly from their ...

Bach Collegium San Diego’s music director, Ruben Valenzuela, is conductor, keyboardist and musicologist for the organization, which he founded in 2003. Dedicated to presenting Renaissance, Baroque and ...

A length of shiny metal, curled back on itself into an oblong whorl, ending in a flared bell. A mouthpiece. Some round, buttonlike keys on top. We all know what a trumpet is. Duh. But that trumpet, ...

This weekend, for one day only, the elegant simplicity of the light-filled University of Houston Chapel will be transformed into a sonic museum. That is how Deborah Dunham likes to describe the work ...

A century ago, Black musicians in the classical music space were rare, as were recordings of their work. That is why the survival of more than two dozen of those recordings was so noteworthy. They've ...

It takes a bit of gumption and a lot of faith to base a career on playing the recorder. You remember the recorder? A tubular woodwind instrument, with holes like a flute but positioned like a clarinet ...