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Thanks to all who gathered in New Haven in June to make “Yale Organ Week, 2023” such a resounding success.

Martin Jean, director of the Yale ISM, has announced that seven fellows will be joining its interdisciplinary community for the 2023–2024 year.

As part of the 2023 Yale Organ Week, the Yale Institute of Sacred Music offered a series of organ recitals free and open to the public.

On Sunday, May 21, the Yale Institute of Sacred Music honored its thirty-six newest graduates at a commencement dinner at the New Haven Lawn Club.

Congratulations to Carolyn Craig, M.M.A.’22 who has just been appointed as the 2023-2024 organ scholar at London’s Westminster Abbey.

In this video interview, Teresa Berger speaks with James O’Donnell and Bryan Spinks—who share their insights about this sacred ritual.

ISM welcomed former Poet Laureate of New York, Marie Howe, gives a talk and poetry reading for the annual Lana Schwebel Memorial Lecture.

In the Women’s Synagogue/In der vayber shul, a new work by composer and scholar Jeremiah Lockwood will revisit the traditions of khazentes.

Countess Cooper, Yale Masters of Sacred Theology (S.T.M.) student at Yale Divinity School and military chaplain is also a member of Yale Camerata.

Renowned conductor Craig Hella Johnson led three Yale choirs in Voices Rising, a concert that was both spectacular and moving.

In the early 1890s, Dvořák, was introduced to Black American spirituals by the American composer Harry Burleigh.

Part of a series webinar talks focused on the theme of “Mass Extinction: Art, Ritual, Story, and the Sacred”.