Voices and instruments together
Experience the scale, color, and immediacy of choir, professional soloists, and instrumentalists performing in the same room.
Sacred choral music since 1976
Hear something extraordinary.
Soli Deo Gloria brings sacred choral masterworks to life in beautiful spaces across the San Francisco Bay Area.
Current Season
An Early Christmas
Experience the warmth and splendor of a seventeenth-century French winter with Charpentier’s luminous Messe de minuit pour Noël. Woven with the joyful, rustic melodies of traditional holiday folk…
The Live Experience
Why hear SDG live?
Great music, beautiful spaces, and the shared energy of voices and instruments in the same room.
Extraordinary music
Discover familiar masterpieces and remarkable works you may be hearing for the first time.
Beautiful Bay Area settings
Hear music in spaces whose architecture and acoustics become part of the performance.
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About SDG
A Bay Area choral tradition.
Since 1976, generations of Bay Area singers, musicians, and listeners have gathered around music that speaks across centuries.
✓Auditioned SATB community choir
✓Sacred masterworks and meaningful repertoire
✓Welcoming singers and listeners from across the Bay Area
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Audience Voices
What listeners are saying.
Reflections from recent SDG performances.
So lovely 🙂 The expressions on everyone’s faces showed how much they enjoyed singing and playing. Joyful!
Anonymous
The concert was very impressive and inspirational
Lily
Alameda, CA
Spectacular program & performance
Shirley
Alameda, CA
I like hearing beautiful classical pieces that are less often performed; the Handel Utrecht Te Deum was wonderful
Karen
Menlo Park, CA
A wonderful program, with works that complimented each other nicely. I loved hearing an orchestral selection as part of a choral program.
Julia
Alameda, CA
Lovely music, beautifully performed
Allison
Berkeley, CA
Serious intent, tonal clarity, distilled beauty
Mary
El Cerrito, CA
Emotionally Stirring.
Elizabeth
Berkeley, CA
The joyfulness of voice, instruments and wonderful composition.
Paul
Oakland, CA
All a joy!!!
Ida
Alameda, CA
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Soli Deo Gloria welcomes experienced choral singers who love sacred masterworks, careful preparation, and the joy of singing in community.
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