Program Recognition
•Organ students can pursue music competitions through organizations such as the American Guild of Organists
Training
•Weekly private organ instruction in a BA Sacred Music curriculum focused on Gregorian chant, sacred polyphony, and church-music practice
•Two years of music theory with weekly sight-singing and ear-training
•Piano entrants build organ facility toward a sophomore jury and senior recital standard
•Organ majors present a half-hour junior recital and a one-hour senior recital
Performance & Productions
•Schola Cantorum Franciscana, Franciscan Chamber Group, Chorale, and music ministry opportunities at 20+ weekly Masses
•Organ music majors have opportunities to work with and receive feedback from performing musicians in Pittsburgh
Study Abroad
•Austrian Semester Abroad at a 14th-century monastery in Gaming, Austria
