Bringing the world’s music & dance to the Bay Area, and the Bay Area’s artists to the world.

About Us: 

Golden Gate International Artists is a San Francisco organization that presents, produces, and manages international performing artists, with a focus on Argentine tango. Through our projects, the San Francisco Tango Academy and the San Francisco Tango Orchestra, we bring musicians, dancers, and audiences together around tango as a living concert art form. 

Our Projects: 

Golden Gate International Artists (GGIA) is the parent organization of two San Francisco projects devoted to Argentine tango as a serious concert art form. GGIA produces the concerts, brings in the artists, and handles the management behind both.

San Francisco Tango Academy (SFTA)
Education and training in tango music and dance. SFTA hosts intensive workshops with visiting maestros from Buenos Aires, ongoing instruction for musicians and dancers, and community events that connect Bay Area students with the living tradition of tango.

San Francisco Tango Orchestra (SFTO)
The Bay Area’s dedicated professional tango orchestra, presenting the contemporary repertoire in professional concert settings alongside new works and collaborations with international guest artists. 

Together, GGIA, SFTA, and SFTO form one organization with one purpose: to build a community of musicians, dancers, and audiences around world-class tango in the Bay Area, and to carry the work of our artists to audiences around the world.

As a team of performing artists, we saw firsthand the challenges fellow artists face in building networks and creating platforms to share their artistry and spread hope and happiness through music and culture. Even renowned artists in their respective genres experience difficulties outside their own countries and cities, where they have no established network or community to support them. 

The public gets limited exposure to performing artists from diverse cultures, especially in fields outside popular music, and musicians often lack support unless they build a name through well-known competitions and social media. This is further exacerbated when an artist performs a culturally unique genre that is not yet known to the wider public. 

Golden Gate International Artists, based in the San Francisco Bay Area, is a team of passionate musicians, educators, and dance aficionados dedicated to helping artists share their artistry, uniting people through music, and giving local audiences the opportunity to experience high-quality live performances of culturally unique music. 

We believe in cultural diversity and equal opportunity for all art forms, and we are committed to supporting talented artists from around the world and to offering Bay Area audiences diverse programs in high-quality live performance.

What

We work closely with artists from around the world to:

• Present, produce, book, and promote concerts, lectures, workshops, and lessons.

• Build a community of musicians, dancers, and audiences through our projects, SFTA and SFTO.

• Connect artists with fellow musicians, presenters, and local communities.

Support Us: 

GGIA, SFTA, and SFTO are fiscally sponsored by InterMusic SF, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Contributions are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law and directly support our concerts, workshops, and visiting artists. Please contact us if you are interested in contributing or sponsoring a program.