San Francisco Girls Chorus regularly with renowned artistic partners, including the San Francisco Opera and San Francisco Symphony. The Premier Ensemble has also performed with numerous esteemed Bay Area ensembles such as New Century Chamber Orchestra, San Francisco Ballet, San Francisco Film Festival, Chanticleer, Kronos Quartet, Berkeley Symphony, ODC/Dance, the Joe Goode Performance Group, San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, and others. Regularly serving as cultural ambassadors for the Bay Area, the Premier Ensemble has undertaken ten international tours. one of which was in July 2007 when the ensemble represented the United States in the World Vision Children's Choir Festival in Seoul, South Korea, and
San Francisco Bay arrived at a large arm of what is now called Drakes Bay. At the time, Drakes Bay went by the name "Bahia de San Francisco" and thus both bodies of water became associated with the name. Eventually, the larger, more important body of water fully appropriated the name "San Francisco Bay". The first European to enter the bay is believed to have been the Spanish explorer Juan de Ayala, who passed through the Golden Gate on August 5, 1775 in his ship the "San Carlos", and moored in a bay of Angel Island now known as Ayala Cove. Ayala continued