San Francisco

Pocket Opera announces auditions for its 2019 season. Operas this season include: Elixir of Love (Donizetti), Two Widows (Smetana), La Rondine (Puccini), The Tales of Hoffmann (Offenbach), Barber of Seville (Rossini). Auditions will be held September 14 and 15 (7-10pm). Prepare 2-3 arias--at least one aria MUST be in English. Pocket Opera performs its own English translations, and arias will be made available in our translation if you wish to present them.

Position is from September through June, annually
Thursday choir rehearsals from 6:30 until 8:30 pm
Sunday morning rehearsal at 9:00 am followed by the 10:00 am Service Additional services on Christmas Eve & Day, Ash Wednesday, and Holy Week
Pay is $65 per call
Candidate must have strong sight-reading abilities
Also capable of singing solo and small ensemble repertoire
Music degree or equivalent required
Position starts Sunday September 2nd
Auditions begin August 27th, 2018

Calvary Presbyterian Church, San Francisco, California is seeking a new Tenor Section Leader/Soloist for the 50-voice Chancel Choir starting ASAP. The choir sings a broadly diverse range of music, encompassing the great sacred, classical liturgical repertoire along with jazz, gospel, folk, contemporary and secular arrangements. Calvary is looking for an experienced, adult professional singer who can provide positive leadership for our volunteer choir members as well as dynamic, diverse, engaging solo and ensemble singing. The position is for a full year, including summer.

SFEMS Affiliate Tactus (tactus-sf.org), a 12–16 voice Renaissance chamber chorus in San Francisco, is seeking a Music Director to lead the chorus at weekly rehearsals and three performance weekends per year.

This is a part-time, year-round, volunteer position. Some financial support may be available, depending on the qualifications of the candidate. The candidate must be available for evening rehearsals (currently on Thursdays) and one or two Saturday workshops in San Francisco or the East Bay for each concert cycle. The Music Director reports directly to the membership.

The San Francisco Lyric Chorus invites singers to join us for our Summer 2018 Season, Song of the Universal. We will sing American composer John Corigliano’s Fern Hill, a setting of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas’ reminiscences of his childhood visit to his aunt’s farm, and his musings on his own life. Fern Hill is one of the most important American choral works of the 20th century. We also will sing two works by Eric Whitacre, one of America’s most popular contemporary composers: Five Hebrew Love Songs and This Marriage.