From Startup to Standout
Artistic Director | Robert Simpson
Artistic Director Designate | Betsy Cook Weber
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love songs & sonnets
Saturday, February 22, 2025
7:30pm at South Main Baptist Church
How do I love thee? Composers have counted the ways through the centuries. The Houston Chamber Choir will take the listener on a romantic journey that begins in the Renaissance period with madrigals— searing and saucy. Next, are two important pieces from the Romantic period —the Brahms’ Vier Gesänge for treble choir, horns, and harp and Schubert’s Ständchen for tenor-bass chorus, followed by Sven-David Sandström’s “Four Songs of Love.” Finally, the Choir adds jazz, pop, and barbershop to round out the program.
Winner of Best Choral Performance at the 62nd Annual Grammy® Awards, winner of Chorus America's 2018 Margaret Hillis Award for Choral Excellence, the Houston Chamber Choir has established itself as one of the premier professional choirs in the United States, serving Houston through concerts and educational initiatives that enlighten, entertain, and educate people of all ages.
Robert Simpson and the Houston Chamber Choir joined by Houston area school choirs in the annual Hear the Future choir invitational festival
The first photograph of the Houston Chamber Choir in 1995
Robert Simpson holding the Grammy for Best Choral Performance at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards
Artistic Director Robert Simpson leading the Houston Chamber Choir in its season 29 finale, Brubeck! A Celebration, joined by the Brubeck Jazz Quartet and Houston's own Paul English.
Betsy Cook Weber conducts the choir and orchestra in Stravinsky's Mass.
Betsy Cook Weber leading the choir in the April 2024 performance titled "California Gold"
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"If you have never heard the Houston Chamber Choir perform live, then you must. They are quite simply one of the best choirs on the planet."
Patrick Hawes, composer - The Son of Man
