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San Francisco Symphony Chorus (Choir)

Founded: 1972 - San Francisco, California, USA

The San Francisco Symphony Chorus celebrates its 33rd anniversary this season. Established in 1972 at the request of Seiji Ozawa, then the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra's Music Director, the 217-member Chorus today gives a minimum of twenty-six performances each season and has sung under the world's major conductors, including Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas, Conductor Laureate Herbert Blomstedt, Kurt Masur, Neville Marriner, Roger Norrington, Yuri Temirkanov, and Wolfgang Sawallisch. Louis Magor served as the Chorus's Director during its first decade. In 1982 Margaret Hillis, then the world-renowned Director of the Chicago Symphony Chorus, assumed the ensemble's leadership, and the following year Vance George was named Chorus Director. The Chorus is made up of thirty paid and 187 volunteer singers.

Chorus Directors

Louis Magor (1973-1982)
Margaret Hillis (1982-1983)
Vance George (1983-2006)
Ragnar Bohlin (March 2007-August 2021)

Members of San Francisco Synphony Chorus:

Sopranos

Altos

Tenors

Basses

Naheed Attari
Alexis Wong Baird
Sylvia Baba
Katie Baker
Morgan Balfour*
Katelan Bowden
Cheryl Cain*
Mun-Wai Chung
Arlene Boyd
Laura Westman Canavan
Stacy Cullison
Lauren Diez
Elizabeth Emigh
Sara Frondoni
Cara Gabrielson*
Nina Groleger
Julia Hall
Ashley Hecht
Axelle Heems
Hyun Suk Jang
Betsy Johnsmiller
Kate Juliana
Kimberly Kaz
Michele Kennedy*
Kyounghee Lee
Ellen Leslie*
Jennifer Mitchell*
Laura Prichard
Amiee Puentes*
Hallie Randel
Kelly Ryer
Natalia Salemmo*
Elizabeth L. Susskind
Sarah Vig
Lauren Wilbanks
Helene Zindarsian

Carolyn Alexander
Terry Alvord*
Emily Bernier
Melissa Butcher
Mindy Ella Chu
Celeste Camarena
Karen Carle*
Enrica Casucci
Carol Copperud
Monica Covitt
Corty Fengler
Stacey Helley
Amy Hespenheide
Silvie Jensen*
Hilary Jenson
Cathleen Josaitis
Gretchen Klein
Donna Kulkarni
Cathy Lewis
Katherine M. Lilly
Joyce Lin-Conrad
Peg Lisi*
BrieAnne Martin
Ruriko Miura
Brielle Marina Neilson*
Kimberly J. Orbik
Akane Ota
Laura Porter
Leandra Ramm*
Linda J. Randall
Celeste Riepe
Meredith Riekse
Gayle Sakowski
Jeanne Schoch
Tara Scown
Meghan Spyker*
Merilyn Telle Vaughn*
Makiko Ueda
Hannah Wolf

Paul Angelo
David Von Bargen
Todd Bradley
Seth Brenzel*
Carl Boe
Fausto Daos
Dean Christman
Michael Desnoyers
Scott I. Dickerman
Thomas Ellison
Christian Emigh
Elliott JG Encarnación*
Sam Faustine*
Ron Gallman
Kevin Gibbs*
Jonathon Hampton
Michael Jankosky*
Alec Jeong
Drew Kravin
James Jaewoo Lee
Benjamin Liupaogo*
Benjamin Lorenzoni
Joachim Luis*
Jack O’Reilly
Andrew Morgan
Ryan S. Peterson
Yuri Sebata-Dempster
Tetsuya Taura
Thomas Teel
Mayo Tsuzuki
Troy Turriate
John A. Vlahides
Darla Wigginton
David J. Xiques*
John Young

Brent W. Blackaby
Sean Brooks
Philip Buonadonna
Jonathan Chan
Chris Cheng
Eric Choate
Adam Cole*
Noam Cook
Jim Cowing
Reid Delahunt
Michael Dooling
Michael Fields
Rick Galbreath
Richard M. Glendening
Thomas Hart
Rob Lloyd Huber
Lukáš Janata
Mitchell Jones*
Rod Lowe
Tim Marson
Clayton Moser*
Matthew Peterson*
Michael Prichard
Mark Rubin
Chad Runyon
Tim Salaver
Peter Sargent
Chung-Wai Soong*
Storm Staley
Ben Taube
Michael Taylor*
Connor Tench
David Varnum*
Nick Volkert*
Shawn Ying

*Member of the American Guild of Musical Artists

Sources:
San Francisco Symphony Website
Contributed by
Aryeh Oron (June 2006, February 2023)

Recordings of Bach Cantatas & Other Vocal Works

Conductor

As

Works

Vance George

Choir

Selection from BWV 248

Links to other Sites

San Francisco Symphony Chorus (San Francisco Symphony)
KQED Arts: Profile - San Francisco Symphony Chorus


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