Monica Baruch

Monica Baruch, a Los Angeles native, joined the San Francisco Girls Chorus team in the summer of 2018. In addition to her work as Director of Chorus School Operations & Community Engagement, Ms. Baruch has directed Level I, Level II, and in 2022 was appointed to be the Level IV Director.

After graduating magna cum laude from the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, Ms. Baruch spent eight years as a choir director in the Palo Alto Unified School District, where she taught music and choir at the elementary, middle, and high school levels. Before her time in the Bay Area, Ms. Baruch lived in Washington, D.C., where she promoted arts education outreach at the national level at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. As a certified Orff-Schulwerk and Kodály instructor, Ms. Baruch has ample experience teaching singers and choirs of all ages. 

Ms. Baruch is also a singer with the San Francisco Symphony Chorus, and has sung under such batons as Michael Tilson Thomas, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Jane Glover, Grant Gershon, Nathalie Schutzman, and Ragnar Bohlin. She has led reading sessions for CMEA conferences and has prepared SFGC choristers to perform in productions with the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Solo Opera, and San Francisco Opera.