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The Bayou City Performing Arts was founded as the Montrose Singers, Inc. in November of 1979. Led by founding director Andy Mills, theHouston based men's chorus met with early successes marked by lavish productions at the Tower Theatre performing with as many as 80 singing members. Recently it has expanded to form the new Bayou City Women's Chorus. Both Choruses now operate under a new umbrella name, Bayou City Performing Arts.



Its 26 seasons of continuous activity have been distinguished by innumerable performance accomplishments. Among these successes were appearances at the Cultural Festival in Vancouver , British Columbia and the GALA Choruses conventions in Denver of 1992, San Jose in 2000, and most recently Montreal in 2004. In 1998 the original men's chorus made its second appearance with the Houston Symphony performing Schoenberg's Gurrelieder.



BayouCity Performing Arts has performed regionally, nationally and even internationally, representing the Houston community in cities throughout Texas , Colorado , Louisiana , Minnesota and Canada . The Chorus has appeared in many internationally acclaimed performance venues. The Alley Theatre, the 1894 Grand Opera House of Galveston, the Wortham Center - Cullen Theatre, Rice University' s Stude Hall, Jones Hall and the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts - Zilkha Hall highlight its local performance credits.

National and international appearances have been staged at theMeyerson Symphony Center in Dallas , Ted Mann Concert Hall in Minneapolis and Place des Arts - Wilfred-Pelletier Concert Hall in Montreal. This past December the Chorus added the





International Festival Institute in Round Top, Texas to its ever-expanding list of performance debuts.



Recent successes of the Bayou City Performing Arts have been brought about by the appointment of its current Artistic Director, James Knapp in 2001. Under his exceptional leadership the Chorus has grown to over 150 members performing its entire main subscription season in Houston ’' Wortham Center - Cullen Theatre. The Chorus continues in its contributions to the body of choral literature through commissioned works and its recent 2003 release of its first holiday commercial CD, Grateful.

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