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Stunning range, flexibility, drama, and power are among the hallmarks of the 44-year-old San Francisco Girls Chorus’s Premier Ensemble, recognized as one of the world’s leading youth vocal ensembles. Led by Artistic Director Valérie Sainte-Agathe, the Premier Ensemble has achieved an incomparable sound that underscores the unique clarity and force of impeccably trained treble voices.
Praised by Gramophone Magazine as a “remarkable tapestry of teenage voices,” SFGC has been a champion of the music of our time since its founding, having commissioned more than three dozen works by leading composers including Philip Glass, Richard Danielpour, Aaron Jay Kernis, Gabriel Kahane, Augusta Read Thomas, and Chen Yi.
SFGC has traveled the world as a musical ambassador for San Francisco, with tours to the Nordic countries, Germany, Japan, China, South Korea, and Cuba, and performed for the 2009 inauguration of President Barack Obama.
2022-223 season performances include an evening at SFJAZZ featuring women composers, the world premiere of SFGC commission Dreaming Horizons by 2020-2021 Composer-in-Residence and percussionist Susie Ibarra at Davies Symphony Hall, performances with Chanticleer featuring a co-commissioned work by GRAMMY-nominated composer Ayanna Woods, and the world premiere of Matthew Welch’s SFGC-commissioned choral opera Tomorrow’s Memories: A Little Manila Diary.
