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Welcome to the Yale Institute of Sacred Music—a premier center for the interdisciplinary study of sacred music, worship, and the related arts. Partnering with the Yale School of Music and Yale Divinity School, as well as other academic and professional units at Yale, the ISM prepares its students for careers in church music and other sacred music, pastoral ministry, performance, and scholarship.

The ISM engages musicians, artists, clergy, and scholars from around the world in rigorous training and collaboration, and offers a full calendar of concerts, lectures, exhibitions, and other events.

Latest News

On Saturday December 2 at 7:30 p.m., the seventy-strong Yale Camerata, including members of the Yale and New Haven communities, will perform their popular advent concert in...
On Friday, November 17, the Yale Voxtet combined forces with the Sebastians for a program of French music from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Sprightly...
Congratulations to Carolyn Craig, M.M. ‘21, M.M.A. ’22 who has been appointed as the new assistant director of music at Wells Cathedral, beginning April 2024.  Carolyn is a...
On Thursday evening (Nov. 9), come and hear the U.S. premiere of “to the Celestial City”, a new composition by Judith Bingham. The piece is part of the program to be...