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The ISM is excited to introduce ten new long-term fellows for the 2025-2026 academic year.

On Saturday, May 3, join us in Woolsey Hall to hear Yale Schola Cantorum sing Handel’s Dixit Dominus and works by Nordic and Baltic composers.

A video interview with Gospel artist, songwriter, and producer Kirk Franklin is the latest addition to the library’s Oral History of American Music.

Watch the recording and view a photos slideshow from Kirk Franklin’s masterclass held at Yale on April 24.

On April 24, the ISM’s Music and the Black Church Initiative will host gospel great, Kirk Frankin, for a masterclass.

In May students  at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music will travel to France for the biennial study tour, a hallmark of the ISM experience. 

Watch a recording of Sunday’s concert and view a photo slideshow. 

Congratulations to Juliet Papadopoulos M.M. ’24, Veronica Roan M.M. ’25, and Fredy Bonilla M.M. ‘25 for winning prestigious singing awards in NYC.

On March 17, Dr. Felicia Barber made her conducting debut at Carnegie Hall where her first published poem, Dedication, was also performed. 

ISM admissions coordinator Loraine Enlow has successfully completed her doctorate with distinction at the Jewish Theological Seminary in Hebrew Bible.

Awet Andemicael explores music as a practice of theologizing in a talk at Duke Divinity School. 

ISM and YDS faculty, Dr. Mark Miller, will receive an honorary degree and debut a new hymn at Christian Theological Seminary’s 100th commencement.