APRIL 2020


Te top three submissions will be honored and performed at the Lunchtime Recital on Wednesday, July 8 at the convention. May 1 is the deadline for submissions to the Composers’ Forum & Competition. Winners will be notified by June 1. For full details, see the convention brochure at npm.org.


Where will you invest your summer?


Summer provides key opportunities for pastoral musicians to invest in development, whether you are a choir director, an ensemble instrumentalist, a bilingual cantor, a longtime singer or a teen chorister.


At the convention Te full breadth of opportunities is available at the national convention in Louisville, KY, July 7-10, but special opportunities exist as well:


• for those who are new leaders


• for those who want to empower youth – or be empowered


• for those who want to improve their technology acumen


• for those who want to perform with the best handbell ringers in the land


• for those who want to deepen an intercultural spirituality


• for those who want to experience and share the beauty of chant


• for those who need the balm of a retreat


Tese are among the offerings that comprise pre- convention deeper-dive offerings, some beginning the evening of Sunday, July 5, and others on Monday July 6.


With (other) young musicians If you want to support youth in your ministry and those who work with them, consider the One Call Institute experience. Te six-day intensive focuses on musical, theological, spiritual and communal development for high school and college youth and adult participants.


Te 2020 institute, “Make Us Your Living Voice,” will take place July 21-26 at Saint John’s Abbey and University in Collegeville, Minnesota. Te institute is led by Matt Reichert, Zack Stachowski


and Jes Garceau. Team members include Msgr. Ray East, Jaime Cortez, Craig Colson, Bex Gaunt, Peter Kolar and Leisa Anslinger. Info and registration at onecallinstitute.org.


With (other) less-young musicians Adults who want a focused musical experience can explore NPM’s Guitar & Ensemble Institute. For more than 30 years, NPM has brought together musicians for this July 27-31 institute that is equal parts instruction, retreat and camaraderie.


Set at the pastoral Jesuit Retreat Center in Milford, Ohio, near Cincinnati, GEI features top-notch faculty, including new and returning members: Bobby Fisher, Eileen Bird, Jaime Cortez, Bonnie Faber, Ken Gilman, Lynné Gray, Jeremy Helmes, Tomas Jefferson, Jeff McLemore, Brian Malone, Steve Petrunak, Rob Ellig and Jaime Rickert.


In an academic setting For a focused theological experience, consider the Liturgical Music Institute, July 26-31, at the Seminary of the Immaculate Conception in Huntington, New York. Te formation experience includes a 10-hour liturgical theology course, as well as skills workshops for organ, voice, cantor, choral conducting, handbell, music composition, and daily prayer experiences.


Attendees perform in a concluding choral concert with faculty, including Rory Cooney, Steve Warner, Susan Hugelmeyer, Mike Novak, Fr. Paul Colloton, Keith Kalemba, Chris Ferraro, Frank Crosio, Raymond Henderson, Msgr. Joseph DeGrocco, John Miller, Lisa Kelly and Matthew Koraus. For fees and registration, visit liturgicalmusicinstitute.org.


NPM National Office has a new home


After 17 years, the NPM office has relocated. We didn’t move too far, just three floors up to a fresh space better suited to our current needs. Please make note of our new mailing address:


NPM 962 Wayne Avenue, Suite 550 Silver Spring MD 20910


If you travel to the Washington, D.C., area be sure to stop in for a visit.


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