Elaine Robertson
Soprano ELAINE ROBERTSON has been involved with choral singing since her youth, having been a member of a number of choruses, including the San Francisco Girls Chorus Chorissma Group; the San Francisco University High School Camerata; the St. Edmund Hall Chapel Choir at Oxford University, and the Stanford University Early Music Singers. In addition, she has been a co-founder and singer in two choruses: Voces Sine Nomine, an a cappella Renaissance quartet at Oxford University and the International Orange Chorale San Francisco. In 2008 she sang the soprano solo in the world premiere of Éric Marty’s C. Elegans at the San Francisco Boys Chorus 60th Anniversary Concert at the War Memorial Opera House. She also sang the soprano solo in Schubert’s Mass in C Major in Marseille Cathedral and Monaco Cathedral as part of the San Francisco Boys Chorus 60th Anniversary Tour to France. Additionally, she has sung solos with San Francisco Lyric Chorus, San Francisco Renaissance Voices, and International Orange Chorale. For the past two summers she has participated in the Grand Teton Music Festival with the San Francisco Festival Chorus, directed by Ian Robertson and Donald Runnicles, singing as part of a solo quartet this past season in Messiaen’s Trois Petites Liturgies de la Présence Divine.Elaine majored in philosophy and psychology at Oxford University and holds a Masters Degree in Philosophy from Oxford University and a Masters Degree in Psychology from Stanford University. She currently works as Program Manager for the San Francisco Boys Chorus, as Executive Director for the San Francisco Festival Chorale, and as Children’s Wrangler at the San Francisco Opera.