Myrna J. Keough

Myrna J. Keough, DSM, DMin

Director of Sacred Music
Associate Professor of Sacred Music
Coordinator of Liturgical Formation

Contact

myrna.keough@mtangel.edu

Education

DMin: Mount Angel Seminary (2024)
DSM: Graduate Theological Foundation (2023)
MA: Mount Angel Seminary (2017)
Grade X Voice Performance: The Royal Conservatory of Music (2005)
BMus.Ed: Luther College, University of Regina (2004)
AA: Ambrose University (2003)
ARCT, Piano Performance: The Royal Conservatory of Music (2000)

Courses taught
  • Introduction to Chant and Sacred Music
  • Chant and Presiding
  • History of Music
  • Seminary Liturgical Choir I & II
  • Introduction to Music Theory
  • Vocal Music I & II
  • Keyboard I & II
Research interests
  • Liturgy
  • Liturgical and sacred music
  • Gregorian Chant
  • Music and ecumenism
  • Sacred music composition
Select projects
  • Director, Mount Angel Chamber Choir
  • Mass of Glad Tidings: A Musical Setting of the Roman Catholic Mass for Use in Eucharistic Liturgies (2015)
  • Blessed Conchita Project: Mass Ordinary, hymns, and motets (2019)
Professional associations
  • Oregon Catholic Press, Board of Directors
  • Salem Youth Symphony, Board of Directors
  • Church Music Association of America
  • CATE (Christians Advancing Transformational Education)