Junior Fellow
Peter Kadeli
Head of Sacred Music
Beauty & Culture

Peter Kadeli holds the Dom Mocquereau Chair in Liturgical Music at The Catholic University of America, where he serves as Head of Sacred Music and Director of Choral Activities. He is Associate Conductor of the two-time Grammy Award–winning The Washington Chorus and a second-place recipient of The American Prize in Choral Conducting.

Kadeli has conducted internationally in major venues including the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Chicago’s Harris Theater, Smetana Hall, and the Stiftung Mozarteum – Großer Saal. He has expanded the national profile of the Catholic University Chamber Choir through performances and collaborations at Carnegie Hall, the Society for Catholic Liturgy National Conference, and South Carolina’s 250th anniversary celebration. He contributed to recordings of works by Sir James MacMillan as part of the Lilly Endowment–funded Project Welcoming Children in Worship.

He earned degrees from Indiana University (DM), the University of Michigan (MM), and George Mason University (BM).

  • Sacred music
  • Choral conducting
  • Music history/literature
  • Composition, choral education
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Peter Kadeli, D.M.