After its foundation in 1983, the Salzburg Bach Choir quickly established itself as one of Austria's leading vocal ensembles and has gained an increasingly international reputation in recent years. The choir is a regular guest at the Salzburg Festival at Easter, Whitsun and in the summer and has celebrated acclaimed successes there in numerous concerts as well as in staged productions: highlights have included Mozart's Idomeneo, the Handel operas Theodora, Ariodante and Alcina, Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and the world premiere of Thomas Adès' The Exterminating Angel. 

The choir is also a permanent artistic partner of the Salzburg Mozart Week, where it most recently appeared on the opera stage in Thamos and Entführung aus dem Serail. Guest performances have taken the choir to the Golden Hall of the Musikverein in Vienna, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Mozartfest Würzburg, the International Baroque Festival in Melk Abbey, the Handel Festivals in Halle and Göttingen, the Enescu Festival in Bucharest and the Bruckner Festival in Linz. The Bach Choir has travelled to concerts in France, Italy, Greece, Spain and Switzerland, as well as to Turkey as a guest of the Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra. 

Thanks to its variable instrumentation and stylistic flexibility, the Salzburg Bach Choir can devote itself to a diverse repertoire ranging from the vocal polyphony of the Renaissance to the great oratorios of the Baroque, Classical and Romantic periods and works of the 20th century. However, it has also attracted international attention with interpretations of contemporary music, including world premieres by composers such as Georg Friedrich Haas and Mauricio Sotelo.
In 2019, the Bach Choir founded its own concert series entitled CHORAGE®, in which vocal music forms a focal point of the artistic work. Its a cappella repertoire also spans five centuries: the choir impressed with performances of Thomas Tallis' 40-part motet Spem in alium as well as works by György Ligeti and Beat Furrer at the International Mozarteum Foundation's “Dialogues” festival.

The Bachchor Salzburg has performed under many outstanding conductors and with such renowned orchestras as the Vienna Philharmonic, the Mozarteum Orchestra and the Camerata Salzburg, RSO Vienna, Les Musiciens du Louvre, the Staatskapelle Dresden, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela. The choir has repeatedly collaborated with Ivor Bolton, Gianluca Capuano, Adam Fischer, Leopold Hager, Kirill Petrenko, Ingo Metzmacher, Andrés Orozco-Estrada and Christian Thielemann.