So many of these classes have re-connected me to things I knew but had been inhabiting the back of my brain instead of the front and it has definitely revitalized both my church work and my teaching.
Sacred Music
Program overview
This online master's in sacred music program is designed to meet the needs of practicing church musicians unable to matriculate in the on-campus program. Explore new paths toward liturgical excellence and spiritual depth through this interdenominational program. Broad and comprehensive in design, it focuses on the practical side of making music and developing leadership skills in a community setting.
Admission requirements
Strengthen your music ministry
Graduates exit our program with the blueprint to strengthen their church music ministries having enhanced their musical knowledge and skills. Each week, millions of people around the world worship in churches - large and small - with music programs led by Westminster Choir College graduates.
Common careers:
- Director of Music for Youth
- Director of Music
- Minister of Music
- Choral Director
Curriculum requirements
Our broad and comprehensive curriculum offers students a chance to focus on the practical side of making music. Courses focus on practices that respond to the various cultural forces that continue to transform the ways in which worship is accomplished in the 21st-century.
Contact
Sacred Music, M.S.M. (Online)
Professor, Department Chair
Department of Performance Studies
Westminster House
mcusack [at] rider.edu
609-921-7100, ext. 8253
Academic Focus: Voice
