San Francisco Girls Chorus

The organization consists of a professional-level performance, recording, and touring ensemble and a six-level Chorus School training program.

In addition to annual engagements with the San Francisco Opera and San Francisco Symphony, SFGC has engaged in artistic partnerships such as the New York Philharmonic's Biennial Festival of New Music at Lincoln Center in June 2016 in collaboration with The Knights orchestra; SHIFT: A Festival of American Orchestras in April 2017 at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC; and Carnegie Hall in February 2018 with the Philip Glass Ensemble.

[8] In 2020, as the pandemic shut down live performances, the SFGC streamed a virtual festival that included collaborations with the Berkeley Ballet Theater and the Philip Glass Ensemble.

[10] In 2022 the SFGC performed the choral premiere of Kamala's Hope, a work based on the Vice Presidential acceptance speeches of Kamala Harris,[11] and in June 2023 the SFGC's Premier Ensemble performed the pandemic-delayed debut of the choral-opera Tomorrow’s Memories: A Little Manila Diary, which it had commissioned from composer Matthew Welch, based on the diaries of Filipina immigrant Angeles Monrayo.

This program provides the opportunity for singers to collaborate with working composers, to be immersed in contemporary techniques, and to perform world premieres each season.

Composers-in-residence have included: Danny Clay, Lisa Mezzacappa, Angélica Negrón, Pamela Z,[15] Sahba Aminikia, and Gabriela Lena Frank.

The Premier Ensemble has recorded and released nine solo CD recordings including: Voices of Hope and Peace, which includes "Anne Frank: A Living Voice" by American composer Linda Tutas Haugen; Christmas, a selection of diverse holiday songs; Crossroads, a collection of world folk music; Music From the Venetian Ospedali, a disc of Italian Baroque music, for which The New Yorker proclaimed the Chorus "tremendously accomplished;" and their first double-disc release, Heaven and Earth, using recordings from 2008–09.

The Premier Ensemble's February 2018 solo CD recording, Final Answer, was released on Philip Glass's Orange Mountain Music label and features works by composers Philip Glass, Lisa Bielawa, Gabriel Kahane, John Zorn, Carla Kihlstedt, Aleksandra Vrebalov, Sahba Aminikia, Matthew Welch and Theo Bleckmann.

[17] Their most recent album, My Outstretched Hand, released in 2019 by Supertrain Records, features the world premiere of Colin Jacobsen's three-movement (although only two appear on the album) piece If I Were Not Me as well as Lisa Bielawa's My Outstretched Hand, previously performed at the Kennedy Center, and the two-movement Remembering the Sea by Aaron Jay Kernis.

Richard Danielpour,[18] Aaron Jay Kernis,[19] Gabriela Lena Frank, Philip Glass, Augusta Read Thomas, Libby Larsen, Jake Heggie,[20] Chen Yi, and other composers have created and arranged works specifically for the Chorus.