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:
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(as of April 2013)