MEET SAN FRANCISCO CHORAL ARTISTS
Winner of The American Prize (2020) and the Chorus America/ASCAP award (2012, 2015) for adventurous programming, SFCA has fostered new choral music for almost 40 years. Presenting eclectic, imaginative programs of both world premieres and repertoire from the last 600 years, we strive to present programs that are musically, intellectually and emotionally satisfying. Audiences have described our performances as “brilliant,” “stunning,” and “transcendent.”
SFCA has released three CDs: With Strings Attached (2011), in collaboration with The Alexander String Quartet and includes 3 major works commissioned for the occasion. Music Among Friends (2005) celebrates works of local composers and includes 5 world premieres. So Gracious Is the Time (1999), features works of contemporary American composers.
Each season SFCA offers three concert sets, each of which is performed in San Francisco, Oakland, Palo Alto and other Bay Area communities. We have collaborated with a diverse range of musicians, including jazz violinist Mads Tolling, harpsichordist Jillon Stoppels Dupree, SF Chamber Orchestra, the Alexander String Quartet, The Whole Noyse, the Galax Quartet, and Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra. SFCA has also performed with the Chamber Choir of the Academy of Arts in Berlin (Germany), and the Ateneo Chamber Singers (Philippines).
Artistic Director Magen Solomon
Carl Boe, President
Elizabeth Nixon, Secretary
Yuri Sebata-Dempster, Assistant Secretary
Susan Lambert
Jonathan Walsh-Wilson
Ex officio:
Magen Solomon, Tina Harrington
Board of Directors
Advisory Board: Natalie Churchill, Anne Janzer, John Kelley, Wade Lagrone, Ann McCown, Kirke Mechem, Arnold Nixon, Jennifer Nixon, Rebecca Scully, John Zorn
Magen Solomon, Artistic Director
Tina Harrington, Assistant Conductor
Michael Kaulkin, General Manager
Sarah Vardigans, Bookkeeper
Staff
San Francisco Choral Artists, a 501c(3) choral organization, is committed to diversity, equity, access, and inclusion in all aspects of our organization, including (but not limited to) singers, board, staff, audience, composers, and collaborators. We recognize that western classical music has not always offered equal opportunity to all. We pledge now, and in the future, to examine our values, policies, and practices; to recognize and eliminate discrimination; and to welcome and to further the participation and access to all, particularly to members of those communities who have been historically marginalized or excluded.