Early bird registration discount ($50 for colloquium, $50 for Vocal Intensive course, $150 off for Chant Intensive) ends March 31st!
Here’s a special invitation from our new president, Fr. Robert Pasley.
The Church Music Association of America is pleased to announce our 2025 Summer Courses: Chant Intensive and Vocal Intensive. These 5-day courses in the beautiful University of St. Thomas facilities in St. Paul, Minnesota, will immerse beginner to advanced singers, chant conductors, and clergy in the beauty of the Church’s treasury of sacred music, and are ideal for for singers, conductors, cantors, or teachers.
The CMAA Summer Chant and Vocal Intensives are intended for beginning and continuing students, and all those who love and appreciate the central role that sacred music plays as the prayerful song of the Roman rite—not only at cathedrals and basilicas, but in any parish.
Summer Courses - June 17–21, 2025
(A bonus: to get the extra discount for this course, use the promotional code INTENSE25 at checkout; valid through March 31.)
Learn more about the intensive courses and register here.
- Extensive training in Gregorian chant under a world-class faculty, with choices of chant classes for beginners to advanced, for men and women.
- Chant specialty breakout sessions on Gregorian modes and chant conducting
- Music specialty breakout sessions for organists and sessions on new music, vocal pedagogy, education, and chant theory, among others.
- Choral experience with one of three choirs singing sacred music of the masters such as Bruckner, Healey Willan, Stanford, Mozart, Guerrero, Langlais, Gallus, Bianciardi, Lasso, Victoria, Saint-Saëns, Gombert, and Dering, as well as a newly composed Spanish Mass Ordinary by Breck McGough. You’ll learn with our gifted faculty.
- Daily liturgies with careful attention to musical settings in English, Spanish and Latin
- Individual training in vocal production and technique (by appointment only)
- A one-of-a-kind Book of Scores, including chant and polyphony
- Book sales from the CMAA warehouse. We offer discounts on our books to CMAA members.
