2025 Winter Sacred Music Institute

Make your plans to travel to Sunny California January 30 – February 2, 2025. Moderate temperatures during the dead of winter, when most of North America is enduring frigid temperatures, Van Nuys is a very appealing oasis to many! Palm trees, beautiful terrain & likely no ice and snow are good reasons to travel, but even more appealing is visiting St. Michael’s in Van Nuys again. The parish hosted the Winter SMI a month before the pandemic hit in 2020.

We had the rare opportunity to tour the structure while it was still under construction, and we were the first to sing “It is Truly Meet” before the windows & doors were installed. Now, as we have seen from photos from the Consecration on the website, we will once again be gathered there to sing in the beautiful consecrated sacred space, richly adorned, hosted by a most hospitable vibrant congregation.

Our theme is The Feast of the Presentation of Our Lord; the Culmination of the Nativity Season.

The weekend schedule will be filled with sessions and song surrounding the Feast. Discover through our theology and hymnography elements of this beautiful and significant feast - old and new covenant, fulfilled promise and prefigured passion, pure faith and patience. Keynote Speaker, Bp. ANTHONY, focused on the theme will delight, sessions taught by several of the Archdiocese finest church musicians, both Byzantine Chant and Choral music, Divine Services, fun and fellowship will fill your soul.

New this year: All materials will be available in PDF format for use on your smart device (tablet or smart phone). Printed copies are available by request by pre-order only (BEFORE SUNDAY, JANUARY 19) for an additional $25 per copy.

The weekend will also feature a concert of the Antiochian Archdiocese National Choir, who will present both Byzantine and Choral selections, including hymns to the Theotokos. The concert will be open to the public and we encourage everyone to invite friends and family to be part of this important presentation of our Orthodox faith in the music of the Church.

You can view or print our tentative schedule now.

Download the tentative schedule here.

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Host or Publisher Antiochian Archdiocese Department of Sacred Music