Spend a week learning the music and monastic theology of St. Hildegard of Bingen, the first named composer in the West, Doctor of the Church, Benedictine abbess, visionary, healer, and preacher. In this workshop, led by expert scholars and performers of Hildegard, Dr. Alison Altstatt, Dr. Rosemary Heredos, and Sr. Jeana Visel OSB, participants will engage her music within the context of her extraordinary and novel musical theology and within the daily rhythm of liturgical prayer with the monks of Saint Meinrad Archabbey. The focus of this immersive week will be on applying Hildegard’s music to contemporary Catholic liturgy. The workshop will culminate in singing a special Mass based on Hildegard’s music at the historic German parish of St. Boniface in Fulda, Indiana followed by a festive dinner.
Check-in opens at 2pm CDT on Sunday, May 17, and the workshop begins at 3pm. We will conclude shortly before noon on Friday, May 22.
There is an opportunity for a limited number of individual in-person voice lessons with Dr. Rosemary Heredos on the Sunday and Friday before and after the workshop begins (available on a first-come, first-serve basis). Email sacredmusic@saintmeinrad.edu to inquire.
