Latest News
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Now accepting graduate student applications
Applications are now open for Institute of Sacred Music (ISM) graduate programs in music, religion, and the arts with the Yale School of Music (deadli
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A concert celebrating the poetry of Langston Hughes
On Saturday, September 23 two visiting choirs performed a concert of music celebrating the poems of Langston Hughes.
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Inside!
The Religion, Ecology and Expressive Cultures Initiative at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music is sponsoring a series of events over the coming year.
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Welcoming our new ISM students
Our incoming class of 2023 includes published poets and authors, award-winning visual artists, and Grammy-nominated musicians.
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Welcome to Blenda Im, new assistant professor of sacred music and divinity
Im is an ethnomusicologist who specializes in popular culture and Christianity in Korea and the Korean diaspora.
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Welcoming Loraine Enlow, ISM's new admissions officer
Loraine brings with her a host of experiences germane to this role and this academic unit.
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Professor emeritus Bryan Spinks continues teaching and research in retirement
There’s no stopping professor emeritus, Bryan Spinks, who continues to stay busy with his research and teaching, in spite of his “retirement”.
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Welcoming Adrián Emmanuel Hernández-Acosta, new professor of religion and literature
Hernández-Acosta joins Yale from Brown University’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
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Students! Receive coaching in voice, keyboard, and percussion from artists-in-residence
Students can be coached in voice, keyboard, and percussion by three artists-in-residence as part of ISM’s Program in Music and the Black Church.
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Alumni Focus: Grammy-award winning Dashon Burton, M.M. '11
Dashon Burton ’ M.M. 11 has been traveling far and wide as a solo singer since his graduation from the ISM. In 2021 he won a Grammy award for the Best
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Professor Markus Rathey gives talks in Italy and England
Over the summer, professor Markus Rathey, the Robert S. Tangeman Professor of Musicology and Theory at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music and Yale Div
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Yale Lectures in Late Antique and Byzantine Art and Architecture
Each year, the Institute of Sacred Music offers a series of Zoom lectures focusing on late antique and Byzantine art and architecture.