Betsy Cook Weber
Director of Undergraduate Choral Studies

e-mail: bweber@mail.uh.edu
office: MSM 156
office phone: (713)743-3194
address: 120 School of Music Bldg, Houston, TX 77204-4017

Education: Bachelor of Music degree from North Texas State University, a Master of Music degree from Westminster Choir College (Princeton, N.J.), and a Doctorate of Musical Arts in conducting from the University of Houston. Postgraduate study as a Music Fellow at Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois).

Professional Experience: In addition to her administrative duties, Dr. Weber directs the University Chorus and, from time- to-time, teaches various courses in conducting, choral literature, and rehearsal techniques.

She served for seven years as Assistant and later Associate, Director of the Houston Symphony Chorus. Her duties with the Houston Symphony Chorus included assisting in the preparation of large choral-orchestral works for conductors such as Christoph Eschenbach, Robert Shaw, Robert Page, Peter Schrier, and Nicholas McKeegan among many others. She is highly sought-after and active as a conductor, clinician, lecturer, and adjudicator.

Before coming to the University of Houston, Dr. Weber taught public-school vocal music (K-12). While there, she helped design various curricula, and her choirs received numerous awards and prizes. She was one of the founding directors of the all-district Spring Branch Boys Choir and also directed the Spring Branch Girls Choir.

Publications: Dr. Weber's research activities include the editing of choral/instrumental works of the 18th century composer, Michael Haydn. Publications include Litanie della Madonna (1782), "Regina coeli," "Kyrie," and "Dixit Dominus."

Professional Affiliations: American Choral Directors' Association, the Texas Choral Directors' Association, the Texas Music Educators' Association, and Pi Kappa Lambda.