Shorter Music Winners

Rome Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition Winners

• 3 winners in voice
• 1 winner in piano

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

• 25 Southeastern Regional Winners (voice, piano, organ, composition)
• 20 MTNA National Finalists (voice, piano, organ, composition)
• 7 MTNA National First Place Winners (5 voice, 1 organ)

Mobile Opera Competition

• 4 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)

• 137 State First Place Winners since 1982
• 141 Regional NATS First Place Winners since 1982

Georgia Music Teachers Association (GMTA)

• 27 First Place Winners in Voice since 1985
• 19 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
• 5 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, England and The Vatican, Rome, Italy.

SHORTER GRADUATES

Shorter graduates have been awarded contracts singing with:

the Metropolitan Opera New York City Opera San Francisco Opera Portland Opera Lyric Opera of Chicago Indianapolis Opera Houston Grand Opera Atlanta Opera New Orleans Opera Pittsburgh Opera Sarasota Opera Banff Opera (Canada) Bremen Opera (Germany) Dortmund Opera (Germany) Düsseldorf Opera (Germany) Plauen Opera (Germany) L’Opera Nationale du Rhin (France) Opera Breve del Ateneo (Venezuela) American Light Opera Company (NY) Aspen Music Festival Caramoor Music Festival Brevard Music Center and Festival

Wolftrap Opera Austin Lyric Opera Cincinnati Opera Dallas Opera Santa Fe Opera Opera Theatre of St. Louis Merry-Go-Round Playhouse (NY) Fort Salem Theatre (NY) Heritage Repertory Theater (VA) Lakes Region Theatre (NH) Lincoln Amphitheater (IN) McCloud Summer Playhouse (IL) Flat Rock Playhouse (NC) Seaside Music Theatre (FL) Bravo Touring Company (CA) Athens Creative Theater (GA) New York Philharmonic Boston Pops Milwaukee Symphony Chautauqua Symphony Atlanta Symphony, and others.

(as of April 2013)