Texas Chamber Symphony

Expect professionalism in performance, attire, booking, and at all stages of business. We are here to make your event the best and most memorable in every way.

We are here to provide music for all occasions. Getting married? Candle lit Anniversary dinner? Business Event? Cocktail party? Restaurants, wine and coffee bars, patio music. Class it up with a live classical duo/trio/quartet, small orchestra...!

Our Moto is: "Always a Unique Experience". Our Mission Statement: Quality, Character, Community

We are here to provide music for all occasions. Getting married? Candlelit Anniversary dinner? Business Event? Cocktail party? Restaurants, wine and coffee bars, patio music. Class it up with a live classical duo/trio/quartet, small orchestra...! Or always wanted to learn to play a musical instrument or children that want to learn? Those studying music statistically have higher IQs, discipline, etc.!

Music: Shannon L. Small, Flutist and woodwind specialist

Shannon has been featured as a soloist, and in the flute and woodwind sections with various orchestras, chamber ensembles, opera orchestras, musical theatre, and festivals within the United States, Italy, and Mexico. She is the founder and executive director of the Texas Chamber Symphony and is presently principal Flute and Oboe with The Da Capo Chamber Ensembles, and Texas Chamber Symphony, she is a substitute flutist with the Monterrey Symphony, and the Symphony of Southeast Texas, and Opera in the Heights. and has performed with numerous orchestras across the country. She is also an active free-lance musician and clinician throughout the United States, and previously Italy and Mexico.

Shannon is a Distance learning Applied Instructor with William Jessup University and has been on faculty with Brazosport College, Lee College, Houston Community College, and Rochester College. She also has an active private studio, has served as President of the South-Central Chapter of the College Music Society and the Houston Flute Club, and served on the National CMS membership committee. She is active with prominent woodwind associations and has contributed to communities through outreach and enrichment programs.

She received her Masters of Music in Performance from the University of Minnesota. She studied at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and received her B.A. in Performance and B.S. in Music-Business from Winona State University. Shannon has received grants for her work from the Minnesota State Arts Board, American Federation of Musicians, Rome Festival Orchestra, and the Winona Music Guild, and was the 1997 recipient of the Vivian Menees Nelson Music Award. In 2019 was awarded a Pearland Certificate of Achievement for her work for the community by forming the Pearland Chamber Orchestra, rebranded as the Texas Chamber Symphony.

The Texas Chamber Symphony is a 22-piece professional chamber ensemble in the Greater Houston Metroplex and Pearland, and services a tri-state area, which strives to bring all arts together. We are YOUR orchestra.

Our Moto is: "Always a Unique Experience"

Our Mission Statement:
Quality: Bringing high-quality performing arts to Pearland and surrounding areas.
Character: Representing high moral and emotional character within the performing arts and community.
Community: Uniting community in peace and harmony with compassion through quality performing arts.

We are focused on "Redeveloping Classical Music through “The Brooklyn Model” & “Extreme Re-Scoring”.
The TCS is unique in that it shares the ideology of the "Brooklyn Model" by working with artists of various genres, & "Extreme Re-scoring", to develop new and unique performances for audiences.

Professionally trained musicians are trained to project sound, so normally sound amplification is not needed (only if the venue is exceptionally large, acoustics are poor, and potentially if there is an extreme amount of background noise). If we feel amplification will be required we will discuss that at the time of the initial consultation. Our musicians have stand lights for dark settings. Staging is normally not required, but if the situation arises we will discuss that at the time of the initial consultation.