Grammy-winning Houston Chamber Choir announces two world premieres for 2023-24 season,...
Robert Simpson, founder and artistic director of the Houston Chamber Choir, is shown at Christ Church Cathedral,1117 Texas Ave., Thursday, April 6, 2023, in Houston.Bob Simpson understands our culture’s affinity for celebrating anniversaries that are multiples of five, but as the director ofhe feels just as strongly about the other 80 percent of his programming. For the choir’s 29th season he decided to revel in that number with the theme of “Prime Time,” a nod to the primary number.
“Joyful Mysteries” will open the season Oct. 7 at South Main Baptist Church. The performance is a world premiere of a composition by Houston-based composer Daniel Knaggs that was commissioned by Holy Rosary Church. The performance finds the Houston Chamber Choir collaborating with the Monarch Chamber Players and three soloists, soprano Gemma Summerfield, mezzo-soprano Sarah Mesko and bass-baritone Federico de Michelis.
The Byrd-centric program includes works by the composer along with contemporaries Thomas Weelkes, Orlando Gibbons and Thomas Morely. The University of Houston Concert Chorale will join the Houston Chamber Choir at this show for the epic “Spem in alium” by Byrd mentor and friend Thomas Tallis, a reprise of a previous collaboration years ago by the two choirs. “A high wire act without a net,” Simpson says of the piece.
“The work uses their experience as a jumping off point,” Simpson says. “It could be seen as representative of what’s happening in the world politically or with disasters of a natural sort. It’s about those who find themselves uprooted and in exile.
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