About San Francisco Choral Artists
Winner of the 2019-2020 American Prize in choral performance, San Francisco Choral Artists (SFCA) are a Bay Area chamber choir with a mission to foster new American choral music and to present eclectic, imaginative programs consisting of both new works and repertoire spanning 600 years in performances of uncompromisingly high quality. We are now in our 38th season, and the 28th under the leadership of Artistic Director Magen Solomon.
Each season, SFCA offers three concert sets consisting of three live performances in San Francisco, Oakland, Palo Alto and other Bay Area communities. They have collaborated with a diverse range of musicians, including jazz violinist Mads Tolling, harpsichordist Jillon Stoppels Dupree, the SF Chamber Orchestra, the Alexander String Quartet, The Whole Noyse, the Galax Quartet, the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, and the Sonos Handbell Ensemble. 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
Fostering New American Choral Music
SFCA supports the work and careers of composers through a number of ongoing projects. We have premiered nearly 300 works and won the Chorus America/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming in both 2012 and 2015, affirming our reputation for eclectic programming and world-class performances.
The fostering of local composers and new choral music in general is a key element of SFCA’s DNA. We provide a high-quality performance forum to support composers at all career levels.
Through our Roger Nixon Living Music Initiative, we offer 6 formal programs to this end:
Composer-in-Residence
to increase the visibility and support of the many talented and prolific choral composers living in the San Francisco Bay Area
Composer-Not-In-Residence
to expand SFCA’s reach and increase the diversity of the music fostered and performed by the Choral Artists
New Voices Project
Competition for American composers under age 30
SFCA+1
to commission new music for chamber choir + instruments
Wild Card Program
to perform new works by composers whom SFCA admires
Composers Invitational
a periodic call for scores
SFCA Composers-in- and Not-in-Residence since 2015.
View the complete list here, going back to 1999.
Equity Statement
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.
Contact Us
San Francisco Choral Artists
1450 Sutter St., #330
San Francisco, CA 94109
(415) 494-8149