Institute of Sacred Music

Photos: Robert A. Lisak

A preeminent center for the interdisciplinary study and practice of sacred music, worship, and the religious arts, the Yale Institute of Sacred Music was established in 1973. Working in partnership with the University's School of Music, the Institute trains outstanding choral conductors, organists, and singers who are interested in understanding the religious roots and contemporary application of the music they perform.

With the Divinity School, it educates students in Liturgical Studies and Religion and the Arts. Institute graduates become church musicians, ministers, scholars, teachers, performers, and informed laypeople. The Institute presents a wide range of cultural programming. This includes public performances by the sixty-voice Yale Camerata; the Yale Schola Cantorum, a chamber choir; and the Marquand Gospel Choir, among other groups. In the Great Organ Music at Yale series, Yale organists and distinguished guest artists from all over the world perform on the University's renowned Newberry Memorial Organ, which, with more than 12,000 pipes, is one of the largest and most tonally complex pipe organs in the world. The Institute also offers lecture series, literary readings, and art exhibitions that are open to the public. Institute students and faculty take a leadership role in University public worship in Battell Chapel and daily worship in Marquand Chapel.

Netcasts:
Listen to performances at the Institute of Sacred Music web site.

Videos:
Watch performances at the Institute of Sacred Music web site.