One of the country's leading symphony choruses..,[1] and considered "one of the jewels in the city's musical crown",[2] BFC performs in major concert halls throughout Britain and Europe, particularly in Brighton and London.

Building on this success, BFC performed three more concerts in Brighton in 1969, and in 1970 made its first recording: Kodály's Psalmus Hungaricus with the LSO conducted by István Kertész.

The first of these concerts, Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms with the LSO conducted by Leonard Bernstein, marked BFC's first performance at the Royal Albert Hall.

In 1975, BFC's recording of Janáček's Glagolitic Mass with the RPO under Rudolf Kempe was nominated for a Grammy Award in the "Best Classical Performance – Choral" category.

The following year, BFC took part in two promenade concerts, performing Schoenberg's Gurre-Lieder with the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain under Pierre Boulez and Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé with the RPO under André Previn.

He was succeeded by his deputy, Jonathan Grieves-Smith and then, upon the latter's departure to Australia, by James Morgan, who holds the position of music director to the present day.

In response to the downturn in the market for live choral music following the 2007/8 financial crisis,[8][9] the Chorus began to develop its own series of small- and large-scale concerts in the Brighton and Hove area, putting on and promoting concerts with works ranging from Rachmaninov's Vespers to semi-staged performances of Bach's St John Passion.

In 2011 BFC joined Orchestre de Picardie [fr] and 11 other partners from across southern England and northern France to take part in "ACT – A Common Territory".

Two further ACT Network performances of Verdi's Requiem followed in July 2014, when BFC was joined by the Royal Opera House Thurrock Community Chorus in Purfleet, Essex.

In 2015, as part of the celebrations to mark the 800th anniversary of the signing of Magna Carta, BFC commissioned a work from Morgan Pochin on the theme of Liberty.

In 2002, BFC formed the Brighton Festival Youth Choir (BFYC) to give local schoolchildren the chance to perform choral music to a high standard.

It has worked with acclaimed ensembles such as the RPO, LPO and Brodsky Quartet under such conductors as Richard Hickox, Jacques Mercier and James Morgan.