Houston Chamber Choir

Founded in 1995 by Artistic Director Robert Simpson, the Houston Chamber Choir received the 2019 Grammy® Award for Best Choral Performance for its recording of the complete works of Maurice Duruflé. Other honours include Chorus America’s Margaret Hillis Award for Choral Excellence and the American Prize, Professional Choir Division. Dubbed by Jamie Bernstein as “the choral equivalent of the Harlem Globetrotters” the Houston Chamber Choir is as comfortable singing jazz with Christian McBride and Dave Brubeck as performing Morton Feldman’s Rothko Chapel with violist Kim Kashkashian, and Mass Observation by Tarik O’Regan. Of

that performance O’Regan wrote, “I was simply astounded...it felt like time stood still”. A champion of new music, the Houston Chamber Choir has premièred commissioned works by Christopher Theofanidis, Jocelyn Hagen, Mark Buller, David Ashley White, Dominick DiOrio, and Christian McBride. They have performed on tour at Trinity Church, Wall Street, New York City, Yale University and the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City. The Houston Chamber Choir was invited to appear at the 2020 World Symposium on Choral Music in New Zealand.