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Since its founding, the St. Paul’s Chamber Music Society has helped to support the music programs of St. Paul’s United Methodist Church by underwriting guest conductors and orchestras, sponsoring the annual Lenten Concert Series, and bringing renowned visiting artists to perform. In 2023, the Chamber Music Society created a permanent endowment fund with the St. Paul’s United Methodist Foundation. Moving forward, donations to the Chamber Music Society will support current activities and will help to sustain the future of music at St. Paul’s United Methodist Church.

For more information about music at St. Paul’s, visit our Music & Fine Arts page. Upcoming events supported by the St. Paul’s Chamber Music Society are listed below.

To support the St. Paul’s Chamber Music Society, visit www.stpaulshouston.org/give. Please indicate “CMS” in the memo section.

We are grateful for your support and look forward to welcoming you at upcoming concerts and services.

LENTEN RECITAL
Thursday, February 15, 2024, at 12.15pm
Preludes for Solo Piano

Dynamic young Houston-based pianist James Palmer presents a program of music for solo piano, with works by composers Isaac Albéniz, Frederic Chopin, Franz Joseph Haydn, and Alexander Scriabin.

St. Paul’s Sanctuary | Admission is free | Duration approximately 45 minutes
Underwritten by St. Paul’s Chamber Music Society

Sunday, February 18, 2024, at 4.00pm
MOZART’S REQUIEM
In association with St. Paul’s Chamber Music Society

FESTIVAL CONCERT
Sunday, February 18, 2024, at 4.00pm
MOZART’S REQUIEM

St. Paul’s Choir, St. Paul’s Choral Scholars, and St. Paul’s Treble Choir combine forces with the Mercury Chamber Orchestra to perform one of the greatest choral works of all time. St. Paul’s Choristers choir also joins in performing Mozart’s choral gem “Ave verum corpus”

Mozart himself was not able to complete the composition of the Requiem. This performance will use the most recent completion of the Mozart’s music, by Michael Ostrzyga, that brings us closer to Mozart’s original intentions than ever before.

The Combined Choirs of St. Paul’s United Methodist Church
Soloists: Emily Wolfe, Melissa Krueger, Namarea Randolph-Yosea, Keaton Brown
Mercury Chamber Orchestra
Directed by Christoper Betts

St. Paul’s Sanctuary | Admission is free | Duration approximately 60 minutes
Underwritten by St. Paul’s Chamber Music Society

LENTEN RECITAL
Thursday, February 22, 2024, at 12.15pm
Bach’s Genius for Solo Violin

Mercury Chamber Orchestra concertmaster Jonathan Godfrey plays music for unaccompanied solo violin by Johann Sebastian Bach, including the monumental Chaconne from Partita No. 2.

St. Paul’s Sanctuary | Admission is free | Duration approximately 45 minutes
Underwritten by St. Paul’s Chamber Music Society

LENTEN RECITAL
Thursday, February 29, 2024, at 12.15pm
Music for the King of Instruments

St. Paul’s Organ Scholar Emily Amos performs virtuosic music on St. Paul’s grand Schantz pipe organ, with works Johann Sebastian Bach, Jehan Alain, and Sigfrid Karg-Elert’s Fantasy on “Nearer, my God, to thee”.

St. Paul’s Sanctuary | Admission is free | Duration approximately 45 minutes
Underwritten by St. Paul’s Chamber Music Society

LENTEN RECITAL
Thursday, March 7, 2024, at 12.15pm
Con Tempo Trio

Music for solo alto, viola and piano presented by the new Con Tempo trio: Sarah Dyer, Merit Rogge, and Andrea Benabent, including works by Johannes Brahms, Frank Bridge, and Rebecca Clark.

St. Paul’s Sanctuary | Admission is free | Duration approximately 45 minutes
Underwritten by St. Paul’s Chamber Music Society

LENTEN RECITAL
Thursday, March 14, 2023, at 12.15pm
Art Songs and Arias

Houston Grand Opera’s Butler Studio is one of the most prestigious institutions of operatic singing in the United States. Artists from the Butler Studio will present a varied program of art songs and favorite operatic arias.

St. Paul’s Sanctuary | Admission is free | Duration approximately 45 minutes
Underwritten by St. Paul’s Chamber Music Society

LENTEN RECITAL
Thursday, March 21, 2024, at 12.15pm
Spring Serenades

A special ensemble of faculty, alumni and students from University of Houston’s Moores School of Music plays music by Ludwig van Beethoven, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s exquisite Serenade for Winds in E flat.

St. Paul’s Sanctuary | Admission is free | Duration approximately 45 minutes
Underwritten by St. Paul’s Chamber Music Society