From Alonzo King LINES Ballet to Polish opera star Jakub Jozef Orliński to Bruce Hornsby’s watery concert, there is a lot to see and hear this weekend and beyond in the Bay Area. Here is a partial roundup. This week’s
music scene brings a new installment of SoundBox, a Bay Area visit from violinist Rachel Barton Pine, and two hotly anticipated appearances by countertenor Jakub Jozef Orliński. After the terrible news that music director Esa-Pekka Salonen plans to depart the San Francisco Symphony, Carol Reiley, one of the collaborators he named at the start of his tenure, is curating a new program for the Symphony’s experimental music lab, SoundBox. The title is “Press Play: Carol Reiley and the Robots,” so expect innovation. 8:30 p.m. Saturday; SoundBox space, San Francisco; $65; sfsymphony.org Violinist Rachel Barton Pine remains one of the music world’s most assured Bach interpreters, and with her frequent partner, Jory Vinikour on harpsichord, she comes to the Bay Area this week in a program of the composer’s sonatas and partitas presented by the San Francisco Early Music Society. 7:30 p.m. Friday at First Presbyterian Church, Palo Alto; 7:30 p.m. Saturday at First Congregational Church of Berkeley; 4 p.m. Sunday at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, San Francisco; $30-$40; sfems.org. Polish countertenor Jakub Jozef Orliński left an indelible impression with his previous appearance in concert at Cal Performances and as a super-charged Orpheus at San Francisco Opera. Now, this extraordinary artist returns with Il Pomo d’Oro in a program titled “Beyond,” with performances in Berkeley and Palo Alto. 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Zellerbach Hall, UC Berkeley; $35-$106; calperformances.org; 2:30 p.m. April 14 at Stanford University; $15-$110; live.stanford.edu. Bay Area music fans are well-acquainted with the extraordinary keyboardist,
Singer and songwriter Bruce Hornsby for his long stint as a touring musician with the Grateful Dead. He’s also known for the Americana outfit Bruce Hornsby and the Range, who had a No. 1 hit with “The Way It Is.” He’s also collaborated with artists ranging from Ricky Skaggs to Pat Metheny and contributed songs and scores to several Spike Lee projects. Now he is all about the water. The musician has teamed with the acclaimed experimental chamber group yMusic — they’re collectively known as BrhyM — for the new album “Deep Sea Vents,” consisting of 10 jazz/pop-classical/Americana songs about water and human kind’s relationship to it. Jazz legend Branford Marsalis, multi-instrumentalist Mark Dover and drummer Chad Wright are guest artists on the album, which is available for streaming or purchase on most major music platforms. On Friday, BrhyM comes to the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco for a concert that showcases the new release. 8 p.m.; tickets start at $73 and include a copy of “Deep Sea Vents” CD; ticketmaster.com.