San Francisco Girls: Soloist Intensive and Concert Group

• Date & Time: Date & Time: Friday April 11, 2025 at 7:30 p.m.
• Venue: Incarnation Episcopal Church, 1750 29th Avenue, San Francisco
• Tickets: $25 General, $20 Seniors/Students

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• O bone Jesu from Drei geistliche Chöre op. 37 – Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
• On suuri sun rantas autius – arr. Matti Hyökki (b. 1946)
• Ach! Synku, synku – arr. Donald Patriquin (b. 1938)
• Yo le canto todo el día – David L. Brunner (b. 1953)
• Ich wollt’ meine Lieb ergösse sich – Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
• Flower Duet from Lakmé – Léo Delibes (1836-1891)
• VI. Esurientes from Magnificat – Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
• Nigra Sum – Pablo Casals (1876-1973)
• Sull’aria … che soave zeffiretto from The Marriage of Figaro – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
• Three Spirits Trio from The Magic Flute – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
• It was a lover and his lass – John Rutter (b. 1945); Text by William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
• Niska Banja – arr. Nick Page (b. 1952)
• Wau Bulan – arr. Tracy Wong
• Duetto buffo di due gatti – Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868)
• Tundra – Ola Gjeilo (b. 1978)
• Wild Mountain Thyme – Francis McPeake (1885-1971) arr. Sam Reider

Valérie Sainte-Agathe, Artistic Director

Soloist Intensive Faculty:
Tonia D’Amelio, Soloist Intensive and Premier Ensemble Voice Instructor
Dr. Phillip Harris, Soloist Intensive Voice Instructor
Kayla Wilfong, Soloist Intensive Voice Instructor
Chesley Mok, Soloist Intensive Pianist
Concert Group Faculty:
Monica Baruch, Concert Group Director
Christopher Hewitt, Concert Group Pianist

In accordance with the recommended health and safety recommended guidelines from the City and County of San Francisco, the Episcopal Diocese of California, masking is now optional but highly recommended. We strive to make the concerts a safe place for everyone.

Established in 1978, the mission of the San Francisco Girls Chorus is to create outstanding performances featuring the unique and compelling sound of young women’s voices through an exemplary program committed to education and visionary leadership in the development of this art form. Under the direction of Artistic Director Valérie Sainte-Agathe, the San Francisco Girls Chorus has achieved an incomparable sound that underscores the unique clarity and force of impeccably trained treble voices fused with expressiveness and drama.

SFGC offers a sequential, six-ensemble choral training program for girls, young women, and non-binary and gender-expansive youth ages 4–18 from throughout the Bay Area, including the semi-professional Concert Group and the professional-level performance, recording, and touring Premier Ensemble. A leading voice in the Bay Area and national music scenes, the Chorus has produced award-winning concerts, recordings and tours, empowered young women in music and other fields, enhanced and expanded the field of music for treble voices and set the international standard for the highest level of performance and education.

Commissions of new works from the leading composers of our time, collaborations with renowned guest artists, and partnerships with Bay Area and national arts organizations are hallmarks of SFGC’s ethos. Recent and current collaborators include the San Francisco Opera, San Francisco Symphony, composer Sahba Aminikia, Opera Parallèle, Kronos Quartet, Chanticleer, New Century Chamber Orchestra, TEDxSanFrancisco, composer Lisa Mezzacappa, vocalist Tsering Wangmo-Satho and Deerhoof’s Greg Saunier, and GRAMMY-nominated Aoife O’Donovan. SFGC has also toured internationally, most recently to South Africa, premiering a commission by Mokale Koapeng, and France, to participate in the premiere of Thierry Pécou’s opera O Future at the Théâtre de Caen.
SFGC’s commitment to artistic excellence has been recognized through awards and honors including five GRAMMY Awards; four ASCAP/Chorus America Awards for Adventurous Programming; and, in 2002, becoming the first youth chorus to receive Chorus America’s prestigious Margaret Hillis Achievement Award for Choral Excellence.
SFGC owns and operates the Kanbar Performing Arts Center in San Francisco, which has become a hub for small to midsize arts organizations in the Bay Area.
For more information, visit sfgirlschorus.org.

Host or Publisher The Episcopal Church of the Incarnation, San Francisco