WHY WE EXIST
We are uniting American Catholics to create a patrimony of musical art rooted in the classical tradition — sacred music that finally expresses the beautiful faith that lives in 21st-century America.
A WORD TO BEGIN
There is an intuition devout Catholics feel
that is almost impossible to name.
You believe something glorious. And yet there have been quiet moments, in the car, in private prayer, at Mass, when you have wished that the music you heard matched the weight of our faith.
That wish is not vanity. It is an intuition that truth and beauty are one, and that authentic beauty is a mark of faith's credibility. The early Renaissance artist Blessed Fra Angelico knew this. His process began on his knees, receiving his art from the Divine Mind of God, and prayerfully painting to bring it down to earth, to create beautiful works that the Church honors to this day.
For 250 years, American Catholics have had almost no sacred music written in their own language, rooted in the classical polyphonic tradition. No Sistine Chapel. No Notre Dame. No icon artistic patrimony to call our own.
Angelico Sacred Music was founded to fill that gap. Not by performing the beautiful, European music of the past, but by continuing that tradition through the creation of new musical art — for this century, in our nation's mother tongue, for the faith that lives here in America.
Ryan Everson - Composer & Founder
Ryan Everson is a seminary-trained composer with a Bachelor of Music from the ASU Herberger Institute. Like a priest celebrating the Holy Mass, he does not stand separated from the faithful — he stands among them, as a leader and guide, to unite them in giving glory to God.
He is composing original sacred choral music that is rooted in the classical polyphonic tradition, and written in English, our nation's mother tongue. Sacred music is a living art, and Ryan's pieces are designed to fill a gap in the Church's music landscape — to create a patrimony of musical art that American Catholics can truly call their own.
Musical art worthy of the finest Catholic universities in America.
