OkCDA 2025 Summer Conference
July 13-15 | UCO Music Building, Edmond
Conference Location
University of Central Oklahoma
Music Building
Edmond, OK
Pre-Registration
On-Site Registration
Entire Conference – $90
1 Day – $65
Director's Chorus
The Director’s Chorus will rehearse once with the headliner during the OkCDA Conference.
Rehearsal
Sunday, July 13 @ 7-9pm
Choir Room
Mon | Tues Headliner
Dr. Betsy Cook Weber
Dr. Betsy Cook Weber is active nationally and internationally as a conductor, clinician, adjudicator, and lecturer. She began her career with thirteen years as a K-12, then middle school, then high school choral director. She then served on the faculty of the University of Houston as Madison Endowed Professor and Director of the Choral Studies as well as Director of the Houston Symphony Chorus. Both organizations have awarded her Emeritus status. She is currently Artistic Director Designate of the Grammy Award-winning Houston Chamber Choir and will become Artistic Director in the 2025-26 season.
Under her direction, the University of Houston Concert Chorale was featured at numerous state and national conferences and also won top prizes at prestigious competitions in Wales, France, Germany (2), Hungary, Italy, Norway, the Netherlands,
and Austria. The Concert Chorale enjoyed a world-wide ranking of #1 among choirs consisting of singers under the age of 24 and was also listed in the top ten ranking of Distinguished Collegiate Choirs.
The Houston Symphony Chorus, under her direction, performed with some of the world’s leading orchestral conductors including Juraj Valčuha, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Christoph Eschenbach, Jane Glover, and Nicholas McGegan and also toured in the Czech Republic, Poland, and Germany.
Weber has had the pleasure of preparing singers for early music orchestras Ars Lyrica and Mercury Houston, as well as for touring shows, including Josh Groban, NBC’s Clash of the Choirs, Telemundo’s Latin Grammys, Star Wars in Concert, Andreas Bocelli, Eric Whitacre, and The Eagles. In the summer of 2013, she became the thirteenth person and first woman to receive the TCDA’s coveted Texas Choirmaster Award. Her degrees are from the University of North Texas, Westminster Choir College, and the University of Houston.
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