As of April 7, 2009

Metropolitan Opera Guild Auditions

• 28 State Metropolitan Opera Guild Auditions Winners
• 11 Southeastern Regional Metropolitan Opera Winners
• 12 Semi-finalists in the National Metropolitan Opera Competition
• 5 National Metropolitan Opera Winners

Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) Collegiate Artist Performance Competition

• 21 Southeastern Regional Winners (voice, piano, organ, composition)
• 19 MTNA National Finalists (voice, piano, organ, composition)
• 6 MTNA National First Place Winners (5 voice, 1 organ)

Mobile Opera Competition

• 3 Winners

Grand Prix lyrique de Monte-Carlo, Monaco

• 1 Winner le prix du public

American Institute of Musical Studies (AIMS), Meistersinger Competition, Graz, Austria

• 1 First Place, also winner of Audience Vote

National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS)

• 123 State First Place Winners since 1982
• 132Regional NATS First Place Winners since 1982

Georgia Music Teachers Association (GMTA)

• 22 First Place Winners in Voice since 1985
• 17 First Place Winners in Piano since 1981
• 7 First Place Winners in Organ since 1981
• 4 First Place Composition Winners

National Federation of Music Clubs (NFMC)

• 2 State Winners in Voice
• 2 State Winners in Organ
• 3 State Winners in Piano
• 1 Southeast Regional Winner in Piano
• 2 Southeast Regional Winners in Organ
• 2 National Finalists in Organ
• 1 National Finalist in Piano

American College Theatre Festival (Kennedy Center)

• 8 Outstanding Performers (2003, 2005,2007)

Atlanta Music Club Competition

• 7 First Place Winners
• 2 Second Place Winner

Pro-Mozart Society of Atlanta Competition

• 1 First Place Winner

Atlanta Community Orchestra Concerto Competition

• 2 First Place Winners

Josef Hoffmann [International] Piano Competition

• 2 Finalists

Honors of The Shorter Chorale include:

• the New York premiere of a major choral work at Carnegie Hall in 1994 and a second Carnegie Hall appearance in 2002;
• chosen by taped audition to tour Russia in 1992 becoming the first American choir to perform at the original Kremlin in Novgorod;
• the only American choir to perform at A Coeur Joie, a French choral festival;
• the resident opera chorus at the Hellbrun Festival in Salzburg, Austria;
• in May 2002, they performed the Duruflé Requiem with orchestra in Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Greece;
• Other international concert venues include performances in Spain, Yugoslavia, Germany, Poland, The Czech Republic, and England.

SHORTER GRADUATES

Shorter graduates have been awarded contracts singing with:

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