We continue to grow under his leadership, with new commissions, including works by Eric Whitacre, Leonard Enns, David Conte, Vytautas Miškinis, Ivo Antognini, Ēriks Ešenvalds, Philip Lawson, Stephen Main, Fredrik Sixten, and Kirby Shaw, as well as arrangements by Josu Elberdin and Steve Milloy; successful performances on the international stage at the 2012 and 2016 GALA Festivals; and the release of two new recordings, “30” and "Out of the Deep" in the years since his appointment.

The GGMC has released five recorded albums, "Loving Again (2000)," recorded at Skywalker Ranch in Marin; "MASS (2003)," recorded at St. Ignatius in San Francisco, "Tidings of Comfort and Joy (2006),” “30 (2012),” commemorating our 30th anniversary, and "Out of the Deep (2016)" also recorded at St. Ignatius. Since 1999, the GGMC has been supported by annual grants from the San Francisco Grants for the Arts. Included among its regular season performances, the GGMC has produced two major staged productions of cabaret music "Love Changes Everything" (1997,1998); a three-month tour of San Francisco historic sites "Now We Sing the City" (including SF City Hall) (1999); a joint performance to a full house at Grace Cathedral with the London and Paris gay men's choruses after the GALA VI festival in San Jose "International Concert" (2000); seven major orchestral sacred concerts (2000 Durufle, 2001 Rheinberger, 2002 Cherubini, 2003 Bach, 2006 Memento mori: an AIDS requiem, 2007 Stravinsky with the Peninsula Women’s Chorus, 2015 The Coming of the Kingdom with Ancora Girls Chorus and the Jubilate Orchestra); attended the GALA Regional festival in Seattle (2002); hosted the Harvard Glee Club in its first joint performance with a gay men's chorus (2004); performed jointly as guests in New York City with the Gotham Gay Men's Chorus (2004); and attended the GALA VII festival in Montreal ( 2004), GALA VIII festival in Miami (2008), GALA IX festival in Denver (2012), and GALA X in Denver (2016).

GOLDEN GATE MEN'S CHORUS

GOLDEN GATE MEN'S CHORUS

Ex Chorus Director Launches Chorale

Article published in the Bay Area Reporter, July 15, 1982