Sacred Music Events in the Greater Houston Area
Discover Sacred Music Events in the Greater Houston Area
VOCES8 and the VOCES8 US scholars with the St. Luke's Chancel Choir featuring the St. Luke's Singers will join voices in praise accompanied by Jim Roman, organist. The centerpiece of the choral program will be a selection of Handel's Coronation Anthems. Ticketed.
Step into the timeless tradition of evening sung prayer with the Walsingham High School Choir in a resonant sacred space. Our spring season of sacred musical events continues next week with Ash Wednesday followed by evensong on Thursday March 6. Donations welcomed.
A unique opportunity to hear the organist of the newly renovated Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris and professor of organ at the Paris Conservatory is the resonant Edythe Bates Old Recital Hall and Grand Organ. Come early for a center seat!
The University of Houston Choral Department presents a spring concert of Songs of Love and Passion in the Moores Opera House on the university campus. Admission is free.
Join the Cathedral High School Choir in our 5:30pm choral evensong to begin the observance of Lent and return to the sense of the sacred. Donations welcomed.
Immediately following the 12:10 daily mass on the first Friday of the month during the academic year, the Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Houston offers a recital on the illustrious Pasi XIX organ by visiting organists. Come hear this magnificent instrument in a resonant space, and be uplifted. Donations welcomed.
Join us for Solemn Vespers in the Extraordinary Form every second Sunday of the month starting at 4:00 pm with the help of our Sola Stella chant choir.
The Houston Musical Club members present music from the sublime to the ridiculous...you will hear Debussy Preludes beautifully and wittily played by pianist Jane Perkyns; animal sounds in Yiddish honked out by mezzo soprano Isabelle Ganz; amusing songs sung by Kelli Estes and Carla Hammock; and a delightful finale sung by the HTMC chorus. There […]
The Bach Society Houston presents the renowned Thomanerchor at Rice University's Study Concert Hall. www.bachsocietyhouston.org or 713-400-0514
Houston Cecilia Chamber Choir led by Gonzalo Ramos and the Spiritus Ensemble led by Dr. Dan Girardot will combine to feature the haunting setting of Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings with the Agnus Dei (Lamb of God) text. Each group will also perform selected compositions as part of the Bravura Concert Series at the resonant […]
Step into the ancient tradition of sung evening prayer, and join the Walsingham High School Choir for a moment of musical reflection and praise. Donations welcomed.
Dr. YangSun 'Sunny' Yu continues HCU's 15th annual organ recital series with a free recital of Lenten music in Belin Chapel. She is Organist and Associate Director of Music at First Presbyterian Church of Dallas, and an excellent organist. Admission is free of charge.
The Mercury Chamber Ensemble presents a unique opportunity to hear J. S. Bach's St. John Passion performed with period instruments at the Wortham Center's Cullen Theatre. For tickets, go to www.mercuryhouston.org or call 713-533-0080
Harmonia Stellarum Houston offers an afternoon concert of Italian keyboard music and Gregorian Chant featuring Texas' first Italian Renaissance organ in the intimate, resonant sanctuary of First Lutheran Church, 1311 Holman Street.
A unique pairing of aural and visual art as Chapelwood United Methodist Church hosts the Houston Masterworks Chorus the Chapelwood Chancel Choir, and the Ad Deum Dance Company in a performance of Handel's Messiah.
Walsingham Treble Choir voices lead us in choral evensong this Tuesday evening in Lent. Come follow. Donations welcomed.
Spend time hearing sacred musical prayer in a sacred space this Lenten season...and listen to future organists from the University of St. Thomas organ studio taught by Dr. Jeong-suk Bae.
Ars Lyrica Houston presents Handel's oratorio Theodora for five soloists, chorus and orchestra featuring Nola Richardson Cecilia Duarte, and the UH Moores Concert Chorale in the Hobby Center's Zilkha Hall. A fundraising dinner soirée follows. For more tickets and information: arslyricahouston.org/theodora
Come join an angelic choir - Chorus Angelorum - for choral evensong as we observe this Fourth Sunday of Lent. Donations welcomed.
The latest organ has arrived - come meet the new Noack Op. 169 in the 100 Angels Chapel at St. Mary's Seminary, and congratulate Mr. Zachery Turner on bringing it to life. Admission is free of charge.
On the first Friday of the month during the academic year, the Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Houston offers a brief recital on the illustrious Pasi XIX organ shortly after the 12:10 daily mass. This afternoon Ben Sanchez, a candidate for Masters in Sacred Music at the University of St. Thomas plays Lenten selections. […]
In 1638, Gregorio Allegri compose a setting of "Miserere Mei Deus" (Psalm 51) for the Sistine Chapel. The apocryphal story is that the Vatican allowed only three copies in existence, which were kept locked away for safe-keeping. Fast forward to 1764-65 when a young Mozart heard a performance of Allegri's composition, went back to his […]