Dr. Charles S. Hausmann has prepared and conducted the Houston Symphony Chorus for more than 500 concerts. Since he became director of the Chorus in 1986, he has collaborated with many of the world’s great conductors, including Hans Graf, Christoph Eschenbach, Claus Peter Flor and Robert Shaw. His extensive repertoire list includes most of the major choral/orchestral masterworks.

As Director of Choral Studies and Professor of Conducting at the University of Houston’s Moores School of Music, Hausmann directs the masters and doctoral programs in choral conducting, conducts the Moores School Choral Artists, a graduate chamber choir, and oversees the activities of the department. Choirs under his direction have performed for conventions of the Music Educator’s National Conference and the American Choral Director’s Association. He also serves as Director of Choral Music at Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church.

He has conducted numerous concert tours throughout the United States, Europe and Mexico. In May and June, 2007 he led the chorus on its fourth European tour where he appeared as guest conductor on the Prague Spring Festival and with the Budapest Concert Orchestra and the Symphonie-Orchester der Wiener Volksoper. He and the Chorus share an18 year collaboration with Mexico City’s Orquesta Sinfónica de Minería where in July he prepared performances of Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis. He frequently appears as a guest conductor, lecturer, and clinician.

In the 2006-2007 season he prepared the chorus for performances including Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, Adams’ On the Transmigration of Souls and Brahms’ German Requiem. For the upcoming season, he will prepare the Chorus for such works as Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms, Handel’s Messiah, Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms, Orff’s Carmina burana and Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony, as well as the annual Very Merry Pops concerts with Michael Krajewski.