THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA
BENJAMIN T. ROME SCHOOL OF MUSIC
WASHINGTON DC 20064

20 May 2005

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

Welcome to the Institute of Sacred Music at The Catholic University of America Benjamin T. Rome School of Music.

Whether your interest lies in formal graduate study and degree programs in musica sacra with concentrations in choral music, organ performance or composition; special seminars and classes for enrichment and continuing development in the field; or that of special non-degree student, you are a welcome guest here. Unique in our country both as a locus of study and in the breadth of curricular vision, The Institute of Sacred Music finds its foundation in the broad world of music, liturgical theology, language, literature, art, architecture, history and cultural studies.

We offer both the intimacy and specificity which only an institute of this nature can provide. We have opted to integrate the necessarily broad spectrum of disciplines and skills requisite to the pursuit of sacred music in our day. In God's good time, we will live in the world of sacred music (choral music and literature, organ, sacred music and praxis, chant history and performance, choral and orchestral conducting, musicology, composition, Latin American musical studies) and simultaneously in the disciplines of liturgical theology, art, architecture, language and literature, text, philosophy, and the period studies which enrich and inform the complete musician in the Church.

Please return to this website for updates and news of The Institute of Sacred Music.  Applications for graduate study and special-student status in musica sacra are accepted year-round.

Very truly yours,

Leo Nestor, D.M.A.

Director, Institute of Sacred Music
Justine Bayard Ward Professor
The Catholic University of America
Washington DC 20064

Anthony DiIulio and Kevin O'Brien MM Graduates in Sacred Music / Choral Music Spring, 2004   Melissa Weidner / Organ Performance Andrew Motyka / Vocal Performance MM Graduates in Sacred Music Spring, 2005

Artists of the word, may your many different paths lead to that infinite Ocean of beauty where wonder becomes awe, exhilaration, unspeakable joy.

POPE JOHN PAUL II
A Letter to Artists (14)
Easter Sunday, 4 April 1999