Choir & Music

Our worship services feature soloists, small ensembles, and our choir. The choir rehearses on Wednesdays (during the school year) fro 7:30pm-9:00pm and three Sunday mornings per month from 9:45am-10:15am. All are welcome!

Choir members do not have to be members of Horizon. There are no auditions, but it is expected choir members will be able to sing on pitch and regularly attend rehearsals on Wednesday evenings and Sunday mornings before the service.

Our Music Director, Kelemen Szabó, is a Choral Music Education graduate of University of North Texas, where he also studied vocal jazz, jazz piano, and jazz guitar. He currently directs and teaches middle school choirs in Frisco ISD. He is also a music director/private voice instructor at North Texas Performing Arts and member of the Vocal Majority. Kelemen is grateful to his countless inspirations and mentors including Dr. Jessica Nápoles, Dr. Kristina Caswell-MacMullen, Dr. Tyler Thomas, Jennifer Barnes, Greg Clancy, and Jared Schwartz.

Our Accompanist Carmen Doubrava was born in Berlin, Germany. She started piano lessons at age five in Pearsall, Texas, and has lived in the Dallas area since she was six. She received her BM and MM degrees in piano performance from the University of North Texas.

After college Carmen joined the fine arts faculty at Brookhaven College where she taught piano, music theory and music appreciation classes. In 1999, she joined the faculty of The Hockaday School where she now teaches piano and accompanies many performing groups.

Carmen is a member of the Dallas Music Teachers Association and a founding member and past president of the Carrollton Music Teachers Association. Carmen was a contributing writer for Clavier Companion magazine for 10 years and currently writes for The Piano Magazine. She also is an active adjudicator for piano contests and festivals state-wide, and accompanies orchestra and band students in contests and recitals.