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San Francisco Choral Society

The San Francisco Choral Society (SF Choral) is a nonprofit organization comprising 150-200 auditioned, volunteer singers dedicated to the performance of choral masterpieces and commissioned works, and accompanied by professional orchestras and soloists. The performance schedule includes two concerts each in Spring, Summer, and Fall. The annual holiday concert is designed to appeal to people of all ages, including families with children.

Some of the works that SF Choral has performed include Requiems by Brahms, Mozart, Duruflé, and Verdi; Britten's War Requiem; the Bach B-minor, the Mozart C-minor, and Masses by Bruckner, and Stravinsky; Haydn's Lord Nelson Mass, Handel's Messiah and Israel in Egypt; Mendelssohn's Elijah; Vespers by Monteverdi and Rachmaninoff; Bernstein's Chichester Psalms, and Orff's Carmina Burana. SF Choral has sung pieces by living composers, including Morten Lauridsen, Arvo Pärt, Kirke Mechem, and then-living composer Moses Hogan. And the chorus has commissioned and premiered new works by composers Felicia Sandler, Kirstina Rasmussen, Emma Lou Diemer, Mark Winges, and Donald McCullough.

Community Outreach

Bay Area high school students have the opportunity to participate in music education classes, rehearsals, and performances at no cost to them. The corporately funded “Tickets for Kids” program offers free tickets to performances for junior and high school students.

The San Francisco Choral Society offers complimentary tickets to several Bay Area nonprofit organizations for distribution to staff and those they serve, such as [[1]], [Open Hand], [Cancer Action], Hospice by the Bay, Edgewood Children's Center, Citizens Learning In Retirement, and Art and Film for Teenagers.

Commissioned Works

Ubi caritas by Kirstina Rasmussen, performed November 2003
Songs for the Earth by Emma Lou Diemer, performed August 2005
Time Does Not Bring Relief by Felicia Sandler, performed August 2006
pax penetralis by Mark Winges, performed November 2007
Contraries by Donald McCullough, performed August 2009
Seven Songs for Planet Earth by Olli Kortekangas, co-commissioned with the Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra of Finland, Choral Arts Society of Washington, and Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir, performed November 2010

Artistic Directors

Andrian Horn (1989-1992)
Magen Solomon (1992-1993)
Robert Geary, ASCAP award winner (1994-present)

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