Students interested in joining SBCC must audition and, if accepted, are carefully placed in one of five progressive levels: Minnesingers, Meistersingers, Choristers, Choraliers and Bel Canto. Choir members earn college credit for their studies in ensemble singing, voice production, music theory, sight-reading, choreography, and a varied choral repertoire. In addition, advanced members receive Alexander Technique training. SBCC is fortunate to have its own composer-in-residence, Mr. B. Wayne Bisbee, whose works are premiered in its concerts.

   Co-founded in 1996 by Artistic Director Diane Simons and Dr. Jane Hardester (now retired), SBCC was presented the 2001 "Award for Excellence in Music" by the Torrance Cultural Arts Council. Touring and discovering different cultures through their music is a big part of SBCC. In summer 2006, SBCC will perform in the Alaska 2006 Northern Lights Festival. Previously, the SBCC Concert Choir traveled to Hawaii to perform in the Pacific Rim Festival, and in Summer 2002, SBCC toured England, performing in the historic Canterbury Cathedral, St. Martins-in-the-Fields and Westminster Festival Hall.

   In the prior 2004-2005 season, SBCC hosted the bi-annual Invitational Children’s Choir Festival at El Camino College. At UCLA's Royce Hall, SBCC performed with the Pasadena Youth Symphony in the premier of "America!" by Alexander Lu, written for "Lotus Steps", the highly acclaimed annual Chinese cultural dance production. Under the direction of Alexander Treger, SBCC performed Mahler's Symphony No. 3 in D Minor with the American Youth Symphony, also at Royce Hall. The “Mass of the Children” by John Rutter was performed with the El Camino Symphony Orchestra and the South Bay Master Chorale in February 2005. As a finale to a very successful year, SBCC premiered "Platanos" an original composition written by Los Angeles composer, Edward Cansino in their Spring Concert.

  This 2005-2006 season, SBCC will perform at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in a televised performance on Christmas Eve, in addition to performing at the annual “Holidays in Harmoniy” Winter Concert at El Camino College and Spring Concert at St. Francis Episcopal Church in Palos Verdes. SBCC will begin the season with an appearance in Torrance’s annual "Arts Alive" Festival on October 2. The season will close with a performance of “Mass of the Children” by John Rutter
in Santa Monica, under the baton of Dr. James Smith.