betsy cook weber

Houston Chamber Choir Artistic Director, Dr. Betsy Cook Weber, enjoys an international reputation as a conductor, clinician, adjudicator, and presenter. She has led acclaimed choral performances in numerous countries throughout Europe as well as in most of the states of the United States. Weber is the Madison Endowed Professor of Music Emeritus at the University of Houston Moores School of Music as well as Director Emeritus of the Houston Symphony Chorus. Before coming to the University of Houston, where she served as Director of Choral Studies and directed the internationally ranked Concert Chorale, she taught thirteen years of public school vocal music, K - 12. Today, she is one of the few choral conductors in the world to have directed a large choral program at a top-tier university, the chorus of a major symphony orchestra, and now, a Grammy Award-winning professional ensemble, the Houston Chamber Choir.

Choirs under Weber’s direction have won top prizes at prestigious competitions in Wales, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Norway, the Netherlands, and Austria.  They have also been featured at multiple state, regional, and national conferences in the U.S. (Texas Music Educators Association, Texas Choral Directors Association, Southwest Division of American Choral Directors Association, American Choral Directors Association, National Collegiate Choral Organization). Internationally, she has conducted at Leipzig’s Bachfest and the Litomysil Festival in the Czech Republic and has judged choral competitions in Europe and throughout the U.S.

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. She serves as editor of the Betsy Cook Weber Choral Series with Alliance Music Publishing andhas prepared singers for early music orchestras Ars Lyrica and Mercury Houston as well as 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.