San Francisco Symphony Chorus

The San Francisco Symphony Chorus, founded in 1972 at the behest of music director Seiji Ozawa, is the resident vocal ensemble of the San Francisco Symphony in the United States of America. The chorus first appeared in the 1973‑74 season and has comprised 152 singers, performing at least 26 times each year at Davies Symphony Hall. Under successive directors, Louis Magor, Margaret Hillis, Vance George, Ragnar Bohlin, and Jenny Wong, the chorus has collaborated with conductors such as Michael Tilson Thomas, Kurt Masur, and Neville Marriner. Its discography included Grieg: Peer Gynt – Incidental Music Op. 23 (1990), Brahms: Works for Chorus & Orchestra (1991), Orff: Carmina Burana (1996), and The San Francisco Years (2014). The ensemble has earned Grammy Awards for Best Choral Performance (1992) and Best Classical Album (2000, 2010), and received an Emmy for Outstanding Classical Music‑Dance Program in 2001.