Director of Music - Saint Theresa Catholic School Sugar Land TX
Saint Theresa Catholic School seeks a Director of Music. Saint Theresa Catholic School is a Classical educational institution in the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston serving Pre-Kindergarten to 8th Grade students. STCS is a 2020 National Blue Ribbon School and a member school of the Institute for Catholic Liberal Education. STCS has also been named by the Cardinal Newman Society as an Honor Roll School and is recognized as an official Theology of the Body campus. Saint Theresa Catholic School is fully committed to furnishing students with an education that combines the wisdom of the classics with a firm foundation in faith and morals. Located in Sugar Land, Texas, Saint Theresa Catholic School’s rigorous liberal arts curriculum includes daily instruction in Latin starting in Kindergarten; classes in traditional liturgical chorus three days a week; and lessons in Art and Art History twice a week. In keeping with our mission, we “strive to form students who have a genuine love of God and the Church and who are prudent, compassionate, kind, courageous, and generous in their service of one another and to others.”
Position Summary:
We are seeking a talented musician who can continue to build on a liturgical music program in a PreK through 8th grade Catholic School. Each class receives music instruction at least three days per week. The Director of Music should be a confident singer; someone who intends to invite and engage the children to participate in the singing at the Mass and to inspire and encourage them to profit by their study of singing.
The core repertoire of the school program is Gregorian chant, from general chants selected ad libitum from the Church Music Association of America’s The Parish Book of Chant, as well as specific melodies for school liturgies taken from the Roman Gradual and Roman Antiphonaries. Our students regularly sing the Gregorian settings of the Mass Ordinary, including some of all of the following from the Roman Kyriale: I, II, IV, VII, VIII, IX, XIII, XIV, and XVII. Hymns sung at Mass are taken from the Roman Office, sometimes with their original Latin text, and often in English. Students also sing antiphons from the Office paired with select psalms during communion, usually in Latin. The children also use a wide range of folk music as a subject of study or for a break from our general liturgical emphasis.
Interested applicants should contact tgoldak@sttheresacatholicschool.org
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