7 days. 450 singers. Historic churches. Plainchant and polyphony. Each summer the Dominican Liturgical Center of Kraków organizes a week-long conference on liturgical music, with workshops, concerts, talks on spirituality and sacred art, etc. It is held at the medieval priory of Holy Trinity in the heart of the old town in Kraków and gathers over 450 music lovers from Poland and, in the last four years, from all over the world! In 2021 we successfully expanded our program by adding workshops, liturgies, and talks in English. The conference is called the Extraordinary Music Workshop (click here to watch the EMW 2023 recap video) and is designed to have participants experience the profound beauty of ancient musical traditions of the Church in their organic development and in the spirit of continuity, as envisioned by the Second Vatican Council. That is why we offer workshops in Gregorian and Byzantine chant, as well as in traditional and contemporary sacred polyphony. Here you can learn more about our program, watch videos and see pictures from previous editions and read testimonies of our participants: www.extraordinary.music.

Our faculty in the past have included, among others, Fr. Robert Mehlhart, OP, PhD (President of Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music in Rome), Fr. James Moore, OP, DMA (Oakland, CA), Fr. Innocent Smith, OP, PhD (Washington, DC), Dr. Elena Bird-Zolnick (St. Paul, MN), Mr. Christopher Mueller (Louisville, KY), Ms. Grace Feltoe (Perth, Australia), Fr. Dawid Kusz, OP, DMA (Kraków, Poland), Fr. Lawrence Lew, OP (Oxford, UK), and Mr. Andriy Shkrabyuk (Lviv, Ukraine).


The next edition will be held in Kraków July 6-12, 2026. You will be able to study choral music with Dr. Elena Bird-Zolnick and Mr. Christopher Mueller, learn Gregorian Chant with Prof. Susi Ferfoglia and Prof. Michal Slawecki and even dive into the mysterious beauty of Byzantine Chant with Mr. Andriy Shkrabyuk. Save the date now! Registration will open in mid-January and we hope you can join us this summer. Go to our website to learn more and sign up: www.extraordinary.music 


We, the staff of the Dominican Liturgical Center of Kraków, would be overjoyed to be your hosts this summer. Let me know if you have any questions regarding the Workshop. 


With gratitude and prayer for your important service to the Church,

Fr. Łukasz Miśko, OP, & the Dominican Liturgical Center Staff

email: l.misko@dlcenter.org