During its long life, the Society has been awarded numerous prizes and distinctions, both in Spain and abroad, such as the Medal of Merit in the Beautiful Arts on the occasion of its 100th anniversary.
Throughout the choir's long career, it has been conducted by the following masters: Aureliano Valle, Jesús Guridi, Arturo Inchausti, Timoteo Urrengoechea, J. M. Olaizola, Modesto Arana, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Juan Cordero, Urbano Ruiz Laorden, Julen Ezkurra, Gorka Sierra, Iñaki Moreno, Joan Cabero, Julio Gergely and actually by Enrique Azurza.
The Choir specialises in the great Symphonic-choral repertoire and has worked with many important conductors, namely: Fernández Arbós, Pérez Casas, Wladimir Golscham, Jesús Arámbarri, Lamote de Grignon, Ataúlfo Argenta, Jascha Horenstein, Sir Malcolm Sargent, Odón Alonso, Antoni Ros Marbá, Miguel Ángel Gómez Martínez, Moshe Atzmon, Mstislav Rostropovich, Theo Alcántara, Michel Plasson, Víctor Pablo Pérez, Jan Lathan-Koenig, Arturo Tamayo, Aldo Ceccato, Hans Graf, Juanjo Mena, Gianandrea Noseda, Elio Boncompagni, Michaël Schönwadt, Georges Prêtre, Alexander Rahbari, John Nelson, Josep Pons, Jerzy Semkow, Alexandre Dmitriev, Yutaka Sado, Martin Haselböck, Michiyoshi Inoue, Eric Whitacre and Christoph Spering.
A female section of the choir presented in the Guggenheim Bilbao Museum atrium Mike Oldfield's Music of the Spheres.
Recent recordings, mostly of stage music include Goyescas, an opera by Enrice Granados, Puccini's Turandot, Francisco Escudero's Gernika as well as Jesús Guridi's Amaya and El Caserío.