The Yale Institute of Sacred Music will hold the Yale Sacred Music Academy from June 23-27, 2025 in New Haven, Connecticut, for professional church musicians. Organists, choral conductors, liturgists, singers, and graduate students aspiring to a career in church music are welcome to apply. The week’s events will include masterclasses and coaching with resident faculty who are skilled in conducting, organ literature, organ accompaniment, hymn-playing, and liturgical organ playing. Each day will include an evening prayer liturgy in which participants will occupy leadership roles.
Interested participants are selected through an online application process. Application link will become live on Feb. 15.
Those selected for the course will receive free on-campus housing, meals, and tuition, but they are responsible for their own travel costs.
Faculty
- Martin Jean, director of the Yale Institute of Sacred Music and professor of organ at Yale University
- Marilyn Keiser, professor emerita of organ and church music at the Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University
- Michael Kleinschmidt, canon for cathedral music at St. Mark’s Cathedral, Seattle, Washington
- James O’Donnell, professor of organ and sacred music at Yale University and director of the Yale Consort
- Ruben Valenzuela, founder and artistic director of Bach Collegium San Diego and director of music at All Souls’ Episcopal Church, San Diego.
Questions can be directed to program manager, Clifton Massey.