Monsignor Alberto Turco, a priest of the Diocese of Verona, Italy, has been widely recognized as a leader in the fields of Gregorian chant scholarship and performance. He has served as the director of the Cappella Musicale of the Cathedral of Verona since 1965, after obtaining his doctorate in Gregorian chant at the Pontifical Ambrosian Institute of Sacred Music, Milan. He has been a professor at the Pontifical Institutes of Sacred Music in Milan and Rome, and continues to lecture and conduct workshops in Italy, throughout Europe, and beyond.
Stephen Concordia, OSB, attended New England Conservatory in Boston, earning a BM in piano and an MM in theoretical studies. He received his priestly formation at Sant’Anselmo and attended the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music, where he earned a Licentiate and Magistero in organ, and in Gregorian chant. He resides at Saint Vincent Archabbey, Latrobe, Pennsylvania, where he has directed the Saint Vincent Camerata, a semi-professional mixed chorus. Fr. Concordia has taught Gregorian chant at the Pontifical Liturgical Institute; Sant’Anselmo; Saint Vincent College, Latrobe; and Duquesne University, Pennsylvania.