The CHS Select Choraliers and Bel Canto have consistently received superior ratings at both ETVA Regional and ACDA State Festival over the past 20 years. These choirs have been honored as guest performers at TMEA All-State Conference; the ACDA State Convention; Belmont University Choral Festival; The University of Tennessee Winter Concert; and the Duke University Concert Choir Tour. Other honor performance venues include Austin-Peay University; Middle Tennessee State University; and Tennessee Tech University. 

Our choirs have performed at Carnegie Hall on numerous occasions, including the 100th Anniversary Celebration with the New England Symphony under the direction of John Rutter. Select Choralier members travel to New York City annually to see Broadway shows and operas; attend master classes and workshops; or perform in concerts.

The Select Choraliers perform sacred literature each year. Venues have included churches and cathedrals in Knoxville, Nashville, Atlanta, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Brooklyn, New York City, and London, England. Performances of secular music have been given for many national, state, and local conventions, meetings, and ceremonies. Our department has also been the recipient of three grants funded by the Tennessee Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts. These grants featured the Select Choraliers and guest artists in concerts of great opera choruses, the music of Richard Rodgers, and George Gershwin.

Bel Canto is grateful to Master Cornelia Laemmli for inviting the group to perform the Dvorak “Mass in D,” the Puccini “Messa di Gloria,” and Morton Lauridsen’s “Lux Aeterna” with the Oak Ridge Symphony in past years. In November 2009, they performed John Rutter’s “Gloria” with the Oak Ridge Symphony. Under Master Laemmli’s baton, the Men’s Chorale and Select Choraliers have also performed with the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra on its Young People’s Concert Series on several occasions.

We are also grateful to Dr. William Snyder, Chancellor Emeritus of UTK, for extending gracious invitations for our advanced groups to perform on stage in the beautiful Tennessee Theatre. The choir will be performing there once again on Monday, December 7, 2009 for the Mighty Musical Monday series at noon and then again that evening at 7:00. Having both Maestro Laemmli and Dr. Snyder as supporters of our program is a wonderful compliment to our students!

In March of 2008, the Select Choraliers presented a 30 minute concert at the American Choral Directors Association Southern Convention in Louisville, Kentucky. This is one of the highest honors a choir can receive.

In April of 2010, the choir will participate in a New York competion sponsored by the producers of the Broadway revival of "Ragtime." Each of the nine invited choirs will have a workshop with the cast andproduction team for the musical revival and will join the cast on stage, live, to sing the finale of the show. The winning choir will be featured on Good Morning America.