Photo by Naho Yoshida
San Francisco Girls Chorus ("five-time Grammy Award winners" always goes with the name) not only have a busy season, but also engagements that never seem to stop.
Led by Artistic Director Lisa Bielawa and Music Director/Principal Conductor Valérie Sainte-Agathe, SFGC adds to the season guest performances just this Spring including:
* San Francisco Symphony's Feb. 27 — March 2 concerts of Mahler’s Third Symphony
* Singing in the Creativity Explored Gallery, March 6
* Appearing with Stephen Petronio Dance Company’s Like Lazarus Did, at Yerba Buena Center, March 14-15.
* In Opera Parallèle’s productions of Poulenc’s Les mamelles de Tirésias and Weill’s Mahagonny Songspeil, April 25-27, also at Yerba Buena.
Highlights of the girls' own season includes a staged production of Britten’s Noye’s Fludde, based on the biblical deluge story, with décor and set pieces by artists from Creativity Explored on March 29, at Temple Emanu-El in San Francisco.
Among other activities, SFGC has produced CD recordings, including Heaven and Earth, a two-disc set that represents some of sacred and secular repertoire written for treble voices; Voices of Hope and Peace, which includes many SFGC commissions; Christmas, a collection of diverse holiday selections; Crossroads, a compilation of world folk music; and Music from the Venetian Ospedali, a disc of Italian Baroque music.