Hailed as “always remarkable” by the Austin Chronicle, Austin Haller is a music director, conductor, organist, pianist, arranger, vocal coach, and tenor, based in Austin, TX.

His “musical direction produces a gloriously rich choral sound full of exquisite harmonies” (Broadway World), and he is the grateful recipient of Austin Critics’ Table and B. Iden Payne Awards for Music Direction. Favorite productions include Austin Shakespeare’s Sunday in the Park with George; Texas State University’s Ragtime and Legally Blonde; Zach Theatre’s Rockin’ Christmas Party and Present Laughter; TexArts’ [title of show], Ain’t Misbehavin’, and Golf: The Musical; Scott Schroeder Presents’ Floyd Collins; and Zilker Theatre’s The Music Man and My Favorite Year.

Austin has performed with Broadway stars Rebecca Luker, John Bolton, Paige Davis, Kissy Simmons, Natalie Douglas, and many more, and his “fierce piano stylings” (Austin Chronicle) are frequently heard with Broadway performers at Austin Cabaret Theatre. He also serves as music director for Austin Shakespeare’s cabaret series at Parker Jazz Club; its production of A Little Night Music was praised by the Austin American-Statesman as a “fresh twist on cabaret theater (that) attained almost instant perfection.” He maintains an active vocal coaching studio for musical theatre performance and auditions. 

Particularly recognized for his artistic creativity and deep sensitivity at the keyboard, Austin serves as Organist for the Austin Symphony, and he performs regularly with the Grammy®-winning choir Conspirare. He has performed with the Grammy®-winning vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth, and he makes music with a number of Central Texas-based choral ensembles, including Inversion Ensemble, Panoramic Voices, Amphion, and illumine.

Austin serves as Principal Organist at St. Martin’s Lutheran Church in Austin. He has previously served as Organist and Associate Music Director at St. David’s Episcopal Church in Austin, where he founded and conducted the St. David’s Singers choral ensemble, and as Organist at Northwest Hills United Methodist Church in Austin.

He often performs major works for choir and solo organ, including the Maurice Duruflé Requiem, Op. 9, Morten Lauridsen’s Lux Aeterna, and Austin’s original arrangement for solo organ of Mozart’s Requiem Mass, K. 626. An accomplished improviser, he has led hymn festivals and presented solo organ concerts throughout the southern United States, playing works from Bach trio sonatas, Mendelssohn organ sonatas, and Widor and Vierne organ symphonies to contemporary compositions by Fela Sowande, Emma Lou Diemer, and Kenneth Leighton.

Austin’s original hymn concertatos, choral descants, and pop arrangements have been performed widely throughout Central Texas, and his setting of the St. James Prayer has been sung since 1993 at weekly chapel services at St. James Episcopal School in Corpus Christi, TX.

He is an avid runner and a passionate advocate for refugees.