In 1997, director Kris Mason and the board of Seattle Children’s Chorus pursued an opportunity to serve the Puget Sound area children’s choir community by hosting a festival for young, newly formed children’s choirs  The Seattle Children’s Chorus hosted the Puget Sound Children’s Choral Festival at Fort Worden in Port Townsend, Washington, in June, 1997, which included a grand performance in the McCurdy Performing Arts Pavilion.

In June of 1998, the Chorus fulfilled one of its long time dreams as they embarked on their first overseas tour to England , performing in London and southern England and participating in a week of concerts and events at the MusicMakers Festival in Bournemouth, England . The Chorus (with choristers ages 10-18) received top honors as Senior Youth Choir of the Year, competing against all-high school groups.

• June, 1999 –  Pacific International Children’s Choir Festival in Eugene , Oregon - Arioso participated in conjunction with the Oregon Bach Festival.  
• Summer, 2000 – both Arioso and our newly formed Chamber Singers (now Camerata) - participated in the International Choral Kathaumixw in Powell River, British Columbia.
• Spring, 2000 – Arioso was honored to be invited to sing for the American Choral Directors Association regional convention in Seattle.
•  2000 – we broadened the offerings available to our younger choristers by participating in the first festival for our Intermediate Choristers (now Intermezzo) at Fort Worden in Port Townsend 
• March, 2001 - Intermezzo choristers for the World of Children’s Choirs Festival in Vancouver, British Columbia.
• Summer, 2001- Arioso and Camerata toured Sweden and Norway, delighting their Scandinavian audiences. They performed in Troldhaugen, the concert hall at the home of Edvard Grieg in Bergen, at the Uppsalla Cathedral near Stockholm and in a number of churches in the surrounding area of southern Sweden.
• Summer, 2002 – Arioso participated in the Pacific International Children’s Choir Festival as a featured choir and performed as part of the Oregon Bach Festival in Eugene, Oregon.
• April, 2003 – Arioso participated in the Heritage Children’s Choir Festival in Vancouver, British Columbia.
• Summer, 2003 – Camerata was honored to be featured at the Niagara International Music Festival in Ontario, Canada.  Jonathan Willcocks, guest clinician at the Niagara Festival, complimented Camerata indicating…what a great pleasure it was to spend time with you and work with your fine choir in the recent Niagara Festival. I was full of admiration for how they sang…they sing with such commitment and musicality.  Barbara Clark, artistic director of the Niagara International Music Festival also wrote: Your performances at the Niagara Festival were certainly a highlight for me and I know, for others as well.  The beautiful tone and blend that your singers have in voices so young are just superb.
• March, 2004 – Camerata was invited to perform at the ACDA regional convention in Boise, Idaho.
• Summer, 2004 - Arioso and Camerata toured Eastern Europe,  making stops in Salzburg, Austria; Prague, Czech Republic; and Krakow and Warsaw, Poland.
• February, 2005 – The American Choral Directors Association presented its biennial National Convention in Los Angeles. Seattle Childrens Chorus’s Arioso was invited, and participated in this convention. Arioso was among the 100 choirs who were invited to sing at the convention.
• March, 2006 - Camerata attended the Heritage Festival of Gold  with honors and standing ovations!
• Summer, 2007 -  Arioso and Camerata embarked on a wonderful musical tour to the country of Brazil.  They stopped in Rio de Janeiro, home of the famous cable car ride up Sugarloaf and Christ the Redeemer statue; Petropolis, where SCC was honored to participate in the Brazilian National Congress of Children’s Choirs; and the city of Paraty, located on the coast with beautiful Portuguese colonial architecture and cobbled streets.