St. Paul's Choir
St. Paul's Choir sings multiple services weekly at St. Paul's United Methodist Church, special services in Lent and Advent, and occasional evensongs and concerts sponsored by St. Paul's Chamber Music Society. Its 70-80 members range from singers trained as professional vocal or instrumental musicians to church members of all ages with little or no formal musical education. The choir has won recognition in both musical and religious circles for its deep commitment to the best of traditional sacred music offered to God in authentic, spiritually moving worship. This diverse, inclusive group has been described in the Houston Chronicle as "a choir that sings like professional musicians, but functions as a spiritual fellowship."
St. Paul's Choir has served by invitation as a visiting choir for daily services at Westminster Abbey in London during one-week residencies in 1989, 1992, and 1997. Its 1999 tour included a concert and service at the Thomaskirche in Leipzig, Germany, and a week's residency at York Minster in York, England. Summer of 2001, the choir sang services at Washington National Cathedral and St. Thomas Church in New York City. In 2003 and 2007, they traveled again to England to sing a week of services at Ely Cathedral, Cambridgeshire. Major works performed with orchestra in recent years include the Poulenc Gloria, the Mozart "Great" Mass in C Minor, a complete unabridged Messiah, the rarely heard Britten oratorio St. Nicolas, Ein deutsches Requiem by Johannes Brahms and most recently the Dominican Vespers of Mozart conducted by Stephen Cleobury, Director of Music at King’s College Cambridge. The group has also performed outside of St. Paul's with Houston Ballet, Mark Morris Dance Company, AGO regional conventions in Houston, Texas, and at numerous regional and national conventions of the American Choral Directors Association.
St. Paul's Choir at Ely Cathedral, England July 2007
