Doctor of Musical Arts

The Program in Sacred Music is situated at heart of the mission of the University of Notre Dame. It is ecumenical in nature, but with a Roman Catholic core, and serves to train the entire person, from childhood to advanced graduate study, in knowledge and practice of sacred music. It is from this program that the academy will find its teachers, both of scholarship and of performance, and the church will find it leaders both pastoral and lay. Our program nurtures the congregations of the future, and the audiences for music of many kinds. Our engagement, writ large, is with the ongoing transformation of the musical life of the Christian Churches, with special concern for the life of the Roman Catholic Church.