Dr. Charles S. Hausmann

Dr. Charles Hausmann, director of the Houston Symphony Chorus since 1986, is also Director of Choral Studies and Associate Professor of Music at the University of Houston where he conducts the major choral organizations, teaches conducting, and supervises the master's and doctoral programs in choral conducting.

Previously, Dr. Hausmann served on the faculties of Western Kentucky Universky as Director of Chral Activities; Westminster Choir College, Princeton; and Cranford Senior High School in New Jersey. He has also been active as a church musician, having served large churches in NewJersey, Colorado and Texas. Currently he is Director of Houston's St. Philip Presbyterian Church Choir.

Dr. Hausmann holds degrees from Westminster Choir College, Trenton State College and the Conservatory of Music at the Univeristy of Missouri - Kansas City. Westminster recently awarded him their Alumnus of the Year. He is co-author of a textbook on choral music, published by Silver Burdett and Ginn, and has written for several music journals.

Choirs under his direction have received national and international acclaim through appearances at major music conventions and festivals in the United States and Europe. Dr. Hausmann has served as choral clinician, guest conductor and vocal soloist throughout the United States.

In recent seasons he has prepared the Houston Symphony Chorus for performances of Bach's St. John Passion, conducted by Peter Schreier; Britten's War Requiem, conducted by Robert Shaw; Hindemith's When Lilacs in the Dooryard Bloom'd, conducted by Stephen Stein; Mahler's Symphony of a Thousand, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Poulenc's Gloria and Berlioz' Damnation of Faust conducted by Christoph Eschenbach, and the annual performances of Handel's Messiah.

In the Summer of 1994, Dr. Hausmann led the Houston Symphony Chorus on a tour of Germany and Austria where they received critical acclaim for performances of Bernstein's Chichester Psalms, and Beethoven's Mass in C with the Nurenberg Symphony and the Orchestra of the American Institute for Musical Studies. This summer the choir has been invited to Mexico where they will perform Orff's Carmina Burana and Borodin's Polovetsian Dances with the Orquestra Filarmonica of Mexico City.

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