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 Ballet the space of a single week in the UNited We Dance Festival. The 49-member orchestra accompanies SF Ballet throughout its winter and spring repertory seasons. It also performs apart from the Company; it debuted solely as an orchestra in 1979 at the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco's War Memorial Veterans Building, playing a program that included works by Haydn, Ives, and Vivaldi. The SFBO is composed of 49 members and headed by Martin West, music director and conductor. As of October 2013, the musicians and staff included: The orchestra was led by Denis de Coteau from 1975 until 1998, when