Date: June 18-22, 2007
Ave Maria University offers this rare opportunity for advanced musicians to spend a week studying Gregorian chant at the Abbey of St. Pierre in Solesmes, France, the recognized center of chant restoration and research.
Students will attend class 2 or 3 times a day at the abbey, and will have the opportunity to attend all public liturgies in the church as well. The class will be taught by Dom Daniel Saulnier, O.S.B., Director of Paleography at the Abbey and professor at the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music in Rome.
Hear the monks chanting music of the Mass and Divine Office each day in their gothic chapel. As a picture is worth a thousand words, the singing of the monks at the Abbey St. Pierre presents an illustration of interpretation and style that can never be taught in the classroom or read in a book.
Understand the spirituality of chant as you experience it in its intended setting and for its intended purpose - sung liturgical prayer. Class participation combined with the immersion in chant in the liturgy will be an educational experience unequaled in any school of music.
Download the brochure and application for more information.
You may also email gregorianchant@avemaria.edu if you have questions.
