MUSIC

Round Top Festival Institute presents Houston Chamber Choir - Heinrich Schütz: The Master of Baroque Dresden. Sunday, November 21, at 4pm.

Hailed as one of the country’s leading choirs, the Houston Chamber Choir is an ensemble of 28 highly trained professional singers whose touching and engrossing performances entertain audiences around the world. Artistic Director Robert Simpson founded the Houston Chamber Choir in 1995 with the goal of increasing the awareness and appreciation of choral music. Each year audiences eagerly anticipate the group’s delightful performances, and this season is no different.

Heinrich Schütz (pictured) is widely regarded as the greatest German composer before Johann Sebastian Bach and one of the most important composers of the 17th century. Schütz’s works follow in the grand Italian polychoral tradition of his teacher, Giovanni Gabrieli.