JOURNEYS: Houston Chamber Choir's 32nd Season Tickets on Sale

Single tickets for the Grammy Award-winning Houston Chamber Choir's 2026-2027 season, Journeys, are now on sale. Under the direction of Artistic Director Dr. Betsy Cook Weber, the 32nd season features six subscription concert events, a free community concert, and four additional concerts sponsored by outside organizations.

Single tickets start at $10 for students, up to $50 for regular tickets, while season subscriptions are $249 for the six-concert option. Single ticket discounts are also available for students, members of the military, music educators and those aged 65 and over. For information about ticketing and subscriptions, visit www.houstonchamberchoir.org/.

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THE SUBSCRIPTION SERIES

Spirit Moving Over Chaos

Saturday, September 12, 2026, at 7:30 p.m.

St. Luke's United Methodist Church

3471 Westheimer Road, Houston, TX 77027

With the Houston Chamber Choir Youth Chorus and members of the Houston Symphony

Betsy Cook Weber, conductor

The new season's “Journey” begins with Houstonian David Ashley White's haunting and beautiful Spirit Moving Over Chaos and leads into a single movement of Tarik O'Regan's The Ecstasies Above. Also featured are George Frideric Handel's ambitious Dixit Dominus and Samuel Barber's Agnus Dei with the newly formed Houston Chamber Choir Youth Chorus, closing with The Promised Land by British composer Ken Burton.

Path of Miracles

Saturday, October 24, 2026, at 7:30 p.m.

South Main Baptist Church

4100 Main Street, Houston, TX 77002

Keith Lathrom, guest conductor

Few works in the choral repertoire so vividly chart the experience of a journey as Path of Miracles by Joby Talbot. This monumental composition, written in 2005 for 17 unaccompanied voices, follows the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage through a tapestry of texts in seven languages, compiled and written by Robert Dickinson. Conducted by Keith Lathrom, this work immerses audiences in a journey of endurance, wonder, and renewal, capturing the pilgrim's path from physical trial to spiritual transcendence.

The Holly and the Ivy

Betsy Cook Weber and Jay Besch, conductors

In the season of Advent, the Houston Chamber Choir explores three of the Houston area's most beautiful and historic churches.

Friday, December 4, 2026, at 7:30 p.m.

Trinity Episcopal Church

2216 Avenue H, Galveston, Texas 77550

With Gamelan of the New Moon, Paul Mortilla, director

Trinity Episcopal in Galveston was founded in 1841 and completed in its current Gothic Revival style in 1857. Having survived Civil War skirmishes, the 1900 Storm, and island grade-raising, the historic church remains a cornerstone of Galveston.

Saturday, December 5, 2026, at 2:30 p.m.

Trinity Episcopal Church

1015 Holman St., Houston, Texas 77004

With Segundo Barrio Children's Chorus, Jorge Garza, conductor and Gamelan of the New Moon, Paul Mortilla, director

Trinity Episcopal Church in Houston was founded in 1893 as a mission of Christ Church in the Fairground Addition (now Midtown). Over the course of a century, it grew into one of the largest parishes in the Episcopal Church, with five of its rectors eventually becoming bishops.

Sunday, December 6, 2026, at 3:30 p.m.

The Cathedral of Our Lady of Walsingham

7809 Shady Villa Lane, Houston, Texas 77055

Established in 1984, Our Lady of Walsingham serves as the cathedral for the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter. It is renowned for its beautiful Neo-Gothic architecture.

Hear the Future (Free Admission)

Saturday, January 23, 2027, at 6 p.m.

Westbury Baptist Church

10425 Hillcroft St., Houston, TX 77096

Mitchell Intermediate School, Beckendorff Junior High School, Klein Cain High School, Armonía Collegiate Singers, and the Houston Chamber Choir.

The Houston Chamber Choir's Hear the Future Master Classes and Concert is one of the Choir's most important initiatives, allowing choral music lovers to enjoy this art form at its finest in a beautiful acoustic setting. The public is invited to attend both the class and the concert— a free feast for the ears.

Towards Paradise

Saturday, February 20, 2027, at 7:30 p.m.

South Main Baptist Church

4100 Main St., Houston, TX 77002

Barnaby Smith, guest conductor

Artistic Director and Co-Founder, Voces8

The essence of Barnaby Smith's musical life is the unaccompanied human voice. Inspired by the sound world of VOCES8 and his Decca release Shall We Gather, this program explores the sacred choral tradition. Centered on Frank Martin's extraordinary “Mass for Double Choir” — one of the most powerful a cappella works of the 20th century — the evening unfolds as a sequence of reflections, with movements of the Mass interwoven with music spanning five centuries.

Membra Jesu nostri

Sunday, April 4, 2027, at 2:30 p.m.

Trinity Downtown

800 Houston Avenue, Houston, TX 77007

Betsy Cook Weber, conductor

With members of Mercury Chamber Orchestra

Trinity Lutheran is the administrative and rehearsal home for Houston Chamber Choir. The centerpiece of the concert is Lutheran composer Dietrich Buxtehude's 1680 Membra Jesu nostri, a cycle of seven sacred cantatas, each of which venerates a different part of the crucified Christ's body. For this historic work, considered the first German oratorio, the Choir collaborates with players from Mercury Chamber Orchestra, one of the city's early music specialist ensembles.

Houston Chamber Choir International Choral Conducting Competition
Saturday, June 5, 2027, at 7:30 pm
South Main Baptist Church
4100 Main St., Houston, TX 77002

For the final concert of the 2026-27 season, our patrons will enjoy a 75-minute concert of some of the best choral singing in the world. On that evening, however, the finalists of the first Houston Chamber Choir International Choral Conducting Competition will take the podium. This will be an evening to remember, as three emerging conductors work their magic with the Chamber Choir, competing for cash prizes as well as a contract to conduct a concert during the 2027-28 season.

ADDITIONAL OPPORTUNITIES TO HEAR THE HOUSTON CHAMBER CHOIR

Rachmaninoff Spring with the Houston Symphony and Chorus

Juraj Valčuha, conductor

October 2, 3, 4, 2026

Jones Hall

615 Louisiana St., Houston, TX 77002

https://houstonsymphony.org/performance/rachmaninoff-festival-rachmaninoffs-second-symphony/

Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine of 1610 with Mercury Chamber Orchestra

Antoine Plante, conductor

May 15, 2027

Wortham Theater Center

501 Texas Avenue, Houston, TX 77002

https://www.mercuryhouston.org/2026-2027-season-preview#dt7

Subscription pricing: $249 for six concerts. www.houstonchamberchoir.org/

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