Dr. Betsy Cook Weber is the Madison Endowed Professor of Music Emeritus and former Director of Choral Studies at the University of Houston Moores School of Music. She is also Director Emeritus of the Houston Symphony Chorus, where she prepared programs for some of the world’s leading orchestral conductors including Juraj Valcuha, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Jane Glover, and Nicholas McGegan among many others.

Before coming to the University of Houston, Weber taught vocal music, K-12, in the public schools. She is currently 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, Minneapolis in 2017, and the NCCO convention as featured choir in 2017. Internationally, under her leadership, Concert Chorale won top prizes at prestigious competitions in Wales, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Norway, the Netherlands, and Austria.

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. She 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, Telemundo’s Latin Grammys, Star Wars in Concert, Andreas Bocelli, Eric Whitacre, and The Eagles. 

Weber is grateful for the education she has received. She holds degrees from the University of North Texas, Westminster Choir College (Princeton, NJ), and the University of Houston.