Welcome from the Director

The Institute of Sacred Music at CUA is a gateway into a unique world. Our program embraces the diversity and richness of the field of sacred music, offering concentrated musical study, development of the gamut of requisite musical skills, scholarship in music and in liturgical studies, indispensable practical studies and applications and seminars and colloquia addressing the hybrid demands of this unique field.

The institute at CUA is singular in its comprehensive approach and offerings. We structure individual courses of study in a curriculum integrating choral music and literature; musicology; performance practice; composition; chant history and performance; vocal pedagogy; organ performance and literature; theology and liturgical studies; Latin American music and classical; and religious and humanistic studies. The institute welcomes both full- and part-time musician-students as well as practicing musicians who wish to pursue study for professional growth. Most institute coursework is offered after 3 p.m. to accommodate the working professional. Summer offerings further facilitate matriculation.

An exciting, distinguished assembly of resident and visiting professors, who are scholars, performers, and established and emerging leaders in the diverse world of sacred music, awaits you.

Leo Nestor, D.M.A.

Director and Professor of Music