Conference XXXVII - Oakland - January 6-9, 2020

We look forward to welcoming you to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2020, when the Cathedral of Christ the Light in Oakland hosts our annual gathering, January 6–9.

We will be celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the Conroy Memorial Organ (Letourneau, Op. 118).

  • Concert organist David Briggs will perform the anniversary recital and give an improvisation masterclass to conference attendees.
  • The Cathedral Camerata will perform an all 21st century program of choral music, including David Briggs' Requiem.

Conference speakers include:

  • Dr. William Mahrt (Medieval and Renaissance Scholar)
  • Fr. James Moore, OP
  • Fr. Samuel Weber, OSB (liturgical resources, including Spanish propers)
  • Dr. Crista Miller (on the organ in Catholic worship)
  • Bishop Michael Barber, SJ (on a Bishop's vision for an urban cathedral in the 21st century.

We will also have a round-table to discuss chorister formation.

The Oakland City Center Mariott Hotel has given us a conference rate of $150 per night—a steal for the Bay Area!  Both Oakland International Airport (OAK) and San Francisco International Airport (SFO) are accessible via BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit).

The Cathedral of Christ the Light is at the center of an exciting revitalization of Oakland's historic business district. From Lake Merritt to Jack London Square there is much to do and see, and some very fine dining and drinking establishments.  San Francisco is just a fifteen minute Bart ride under the bay.

The conference brochure and registration details will be forthcoming in the Fall.

 

History

The genesis of the Conference was the initial association of Peter LaManna, Gerald Muller, and Richard Proulx in the Spring of 1983 while engaged in the search process for a new Music Director for the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Washington, D.C. This productive collaboration and an awareness of antecedent Roman Catholic music organizations led to a call to seventeen cathedral musicians who subsequently met at the Cathedral-Basilica of St. Peter and St. Paul in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in November, 1984.

Statement of Purpose

The Conference of Roman Catholic Cathedral Musicians (CRCCM) is the collegial gathering of musicians serving cathedral churches in the United States and Canada. It engages in dialogue, reflection, deliberation, resource exchange, mutual support, and ongoing professional development in consideration of the musico-liturgical practice in unique Cathedral settings as models for the Church-at-large.

CRCCM both seeks and stands ready to consult with other liturgical and musical organizations in the pursuit of beauty and excellence in worship, for the spiritual and cultural enrichment of the community, and the greater glory of God.

Membership in the Conference is open to professional musicians in all Roman Catholic Cathedral Churches in the United States and Canada.

November 1984
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Membership

The Conference of Roman Catholic Cathedral Musicians is a collegial organization. Membership in the Conference is open to musicians working in leadership positions in Roman Catholic Cathedral Churches in the United States and Canada. In addition to those actively employed as cathedral musicians, a nonvoting membership is available for those who had at one time been engaged in such employment and had been active members of CRCCM, but are no longer affiliated with a cathedral church.

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