All levels of the San Francisco Girls Chorus return to the Davies stage for this special Winter tradition, featuring cutting-edge new works as well as annual favorites including The First Nowell and Silent Night. This year’s concert features the premiere of a work for 250 voices by 2025-2026 Composer-in-Residence Nicolás Lell Benavides. Joining us as a Special Guest is Diana Gameros.
Singer, songwriter, guitarist, and composer Diana Gameros was born into a musical family surrounded by traditional Mexican songs of love and revolution.
The first of her family to receive formal music lessons, Ms. Gameros left Mexico as a teenager to study piano and recording technology in Michigan. During those formative years, she soaked up the sounds of classical music, underground rock, the avant-garde, world music, and jazz. Ms.Gameros has since shared the stage with the Oakland Symphony, the San Francisco Symphony, Taylor Mac, Bebel Gilberto, and Natalia Lafourcade, among others.
In 2013 she released her first album “Eterno Retorno”, a soulful retrospective of her journey as an immigrant. Ms. Gameros received the Emerging Leader Award from the Chicana/Latina Foundation in 2014 for her work in music and social justice activism. In 2017 she release her sophomore album “Arrullo”.
Gameros’ songs and story have been featured on Billboard, Mother Jones, NPR’s Weekend Edition, All Songs Considered, NPR’s Alt.Latino podcast and the Public Radio International’s The World and PBS’s NewsHour.