Dr. Betsy Cook Weber is the Madison Endowed Professor of Music and Director of Choral Studies at the University of Houston Moores School of Music and is also active internationally as a conductor, clinician, adjudicator, and lecturer.

Choirs under Weber’s direction, including the University of Houston Concert Chorale, have been featured at multiple state and national conventions including the American Choral Directors Association national convention in Miami in 2007 and in Minneapolis in 2017. Internationally, Concert Chorale has won prizes and received acclaim at prestigious competitions in Wales, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Norway, and the Netherlands, including a first-place finish as one of only ten choirs world-wide selected to compete in the famous International Chamber Choir Competition in Marktoberdorf, Germany.  In 2018 they won the Grand Prix at the Bela Bartok International Choral Competition in Hungary, and in 2019 they competed in the European Grand Prix in Italy.

In the summer of 2013, Weber became the thirteenth person and first woman to receive the Texas Choral Directors Association’s coveted Texas Choirmaster Award, and she serves as editor of the Betsy Cook Weber Choral Series with Alliance Music Publishing. Weber also served for eight seasons as Director of the Houston Symphony Chorus, preparing programs for some of the world’s leading orchestral conductors including Juraj Valcuha, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Jane Glover, and Nicholas Gegan among many others.

Weber has prepared singers for early music orchestras Ars Lyrica and Mercury Houston and is also routinely called upon to prepare singers for touring shows, including Josh Groban, NBC's Clash of the Choirs, Telemundos Lain Grammys, Star Wars in Concert, Andreas Bocelli, Eric Whitacre, and The Eagles. Before coming to the University of Houston, Weber taught vocal music, K-12, in the public schools. She holds degrees from the University of North Texas, Westminster Choir College (Princeton, NJ), and the University of Houston.