The art and the spirit, the person and the culture:
the Fondazione Pro Musica e Arte Sacra welcomes you on a journey through history and for man

The Fondazione Pro Musica e Arte Sacra was established on 21 June 2002.

The Fondazione Pro Musica e Arte Sacra is listed in the Register of Corporations of the Prefecture of Rome, registration no. 162/2002 in accordance with DPR 361/2000, is a non-profit organization, its objective is to promote and preserve the performance of sacred music and art at the highest level.

In this regard, the Fondazione can carry out the following activities:

• to promote and draw a wider audience to religious music, by organizing concerts;
• to organize exhibitions and reviews of religious art;
• to organize festivals, competitions, conferences, seminars, radio and television broadcasts and to exploit other platforms in order to promote culture, music and religious art;
• to organize training and advanced courses in music and sacred art, award prizes and scholarships in this field, promote relevant courses and research, and provide support and financial aid to religious institutions and relevant bodies of the Holy See;
• to print and produce quality publications and audio material to help achieve the Foundation's aims;
• to sell worldwide television rights, pictures and audiovisual recordings of events organised by the Foundation.

The Foundation’s funds can be significantly increased with donations, bequests, legacies and grants. The Foundation carries out its activity aimed at achieving the aforementioned purpose with contributions and subscriptions specifically destined for the Foundation, coming from juridical persons, of public or private, Italian and foreign law, or from Italian or foreign natural persons as well as with proceeds from activities and events organized by the Foundation and with anything else destined for it by the "International Association of Friends of the Fondazione Pro Musica e Arte Sacra", a non-profit association that explicitly includes the Foundation's support among its institutional aims. Every year the Foundation promotes the “International Festival of Sacred Music and Art”, with the Wiener Philharmoniker as orchestra in residence in the splendid Roman papal basilicas. In fact, the series of events of the Festival in the Papal Basilicas of Rome aims to promote the conservation and restoration of cultural assets that are contained in the same Basilicas.

The Foundation also promotes various concerts of sacred music, hands over the “Fondazione Pro Musica e Arte Sacra Award” and organizes a series of other cultural events including the participation of its supporters in events related to the inauguration of the restoration they had financed. The purpose of all these activities is to be able to allocate their financial resources to the protection, conservation, promotion and enhancement of the sacred cultural assets which, due to their historical value, make Italy with the capital Rome the most admired and visited country in the world. This commitment is achieved especially through economic support for important works of restoration of treasures and sacred art and various cultural assets of great importance for the dissemination of sacred music, but also in supporting various other projects.

From 2025 to 2026 the Fondazione Pro Musica e Arte Sacra supports and will be supporting the following musical and restoration projects:

• the XXIV International Festival of Sacred Music and Art which will take place in Rome and in the Vatican from November 8^th to 12^nd, 2025;
• Fondazione Pro Musica e Arte Sacra Scholarships at the Pontifical Institute of Christian Archaeology.

From 2026 to 2027 the Fondazione Pro Musica e Arte Sacra supports and will be supporting the following musical and restoration projects:

• the XXV FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE DI MUSICA E ARTA SACRA which will take place in Rome and in the Vatican in November 2026
• Fondazione Pro Musica e Arte Sacra Scholarships at the Pontifical Institute of Christian Archaeology. The Pontifical Institute of Christian Archaeology (P.I.A.C.), as part of a sponsoring partnership with the Fondazione Pro Musica e Arte Sacra, annually awards two or more scholarships called the “Fondazione Pro Musica e Arte Sacra Scholarship” to two or more talented students carefully selected among the students regularly enrolled at the Pontifical Institute of Christian Archaeology to further their knowledge about Christian Archaeology;
• Creation of the mosaic clypeus of His Holiness Leo XIV for the series of mosaic clypeus at the Papal Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls
• Restoration of frescoes and paintings in the Sanctuary of Eremo delle Carceri in the park of Mount Subasio, near Assisi (PG), Umbria - Italy. The monastery is in a gorge where St. Francis and his confreres used to retire in prayer. The present complex dates from an original core built in the late 14th century and later enlarged by order of Bernardine of Siena;
• Restoration, at the General Curia of the Augustinian Order (OSA), of the entire architectural and interior wall structure of the Chapel of St. Monica, Mother of St. Augustine.
• Support for the institutional activities of the Augustinianum Patristic Institute and for the preservation of the documentary heritage held by the Archives of the General Curia of the Augustinians, through the digitisation of the catalogue and the library collection;
• Support for the institutional activities of the German-speaking Pilgrims’ Pastoral Centre – Pilgerzentrum Rom;
• Acquisition of a book fund to be allocated to the Library of the Pontifical Institute of Christian Archaeology.
• A project to record a CD of sacred music composed by Maestro Monsignor Valentino Miserachs Grau to commemorate the 60th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood.