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Viols of Houston Main menu Home Current BoardPedro FunesWhittington PresidentElisabeth Ellison VicePresidentJocelyn Ursua SecretaryEd Rinehart Treasurer Past PresidentsDeborah Dunham 20052010Brady Lanier 20102013Jordan Witherspoon 20132014 Our HistoryViols of Houston was founded in 2003 when an informal group would gather on Thursday afternoons to sightread music. Barrett Sills principal cellist of the Houston Ballet and Houston Grand Opera orchestras organized the first meetings served as a coach and a teacher and later held workshops where people with an interest in the viol could try it out. Many current Viols of Houston members got their start on the viol in this way. By 2005 membership had increased to the point where the group felt it was time to organize into a regional chapter of the Viola da Gamba Society of America.