Welcome to the web site
of the Latin American Center for Graduate Studies in Music
at the Benjamin T. Rome School of Music
of The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.
The Latin American Center for Graduate Studies in Music (LAMC) was created to promote the study, research and performance of Ibero-American music. This includes the compilation of a complete and specialized library of scores, books and recordings of Ibero-American music and fostering the exchange of students, scholars, performers, composers, musicologists and music educators between Ibero-American countries, North America, and the Caribbean region.
Through the Center, musicians from the Americas come together with the essence of their own cultures to investigate, exchange, develop, perfect, and promulgate their musical knowledge and gifts as a means of better understanding one another through mutual respect of the peoples and arts of our hemisphere.
The Benjamin T. Rome School of Music, in full cooperation with the Organization of American States (OAS) and the Inter-American Music Council, founded the Center in 1984, to offer graduate degrees (Masters and Doctoral) in the full range of music studies with concentrations in Latin American music.
The LAMC has developed and enlarged a Visiting Professorship Program by accepting scholars and professors from the Americas and Spain to research and offer lectures and performances.
The Catholic University of America has established cooperative agreements with Universidad Austral of Buenos Aires and with the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.
Dr. Grayson Wagstaff, director
Dr. Grayson Wagstaff joined the faculty of the Center in 2000. Dr. Wagstaff (Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin, 1995; BM, James Madison University, 1986), musicologist, specializes in Late Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque music in Spain and Colonial Mexico. His scholarly interests center on sacred music, specifically Requiem traditions, Marian devotions, and regional liturgical chant repertories. His recent work includes a study of Josquin’s influence on Spanish music in the 16th century. In addition to such scholarly journals as The Musical Quarterly, Journal of the Royal Music Association, Notes, Heterofonía, and Inter-American Music Review, he is a contributor to the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians II, The Encyclopedia of the Renaissance, and The Reader's Guide to Music: History, Theory and Criticism. Dr. Wagstaff is a frequent speaker at international musicological conferences such as the International Musicological Society, the American Musicological Society, and Feminist Theory and Music 4. He also has presented his work at interdisciplinary conferences/symposia sponsored by The Rutger's Center for Historical Analysis, the American Historical Association, The University of Pittsburgh Colloquium in Social History, and the Society for Spanish and Portuguese History. He was a featured speaker at the Centro Nacional de Investigación, Documentación e Información Musical (CENIDIM), Mexico City. Dr. Wagstaff coordinated a seminar on music in the American South. He is active in arts education in the Washington area.
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To learn more about the LAMC, click on any of the following links:
Courses Offered in Latin American Music
International Activities of the Center
Donations Received
LAMC Online Composer Catalog
Upcoming Events/ Recent and Ongoing Events / Archive of Past Events / News / Acknowledgements /Announcements
