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Sister Marie Keyrouz, born in Deir-El-Ahmar, close to the Roman city of Baalbeck (Lebanon), is a member of the Congrégation des Surs Basiliennes Chouérites and founder-president of the National Institute of Sacred Music in Paris. She pursued several lines of research simultaneously and has received a Doctorate in Religious Musicology and Anthropology from Sorbonne University, Paris (1991), an M.Phil. in Religious Sciences from Saint-Joseph's University, Beirut, and one in Western (Oratorio) and Oriental Classical Music (Vocal) from the University of the Holy Spirit, Kaslik, to the point where she began to be called "the Scholarly Singing Sister".
A Maronite from her family's side and a Melkite through her religious congregation, she is the embodiment of the venerable artistic traditions of the Oriental Church. Belonging to the Mediterranean, a Lebanese with a universal culture to which she is extremely attached, she has not only mastered the art or singing in the Near-Eastern style, but also the old and classical Western styles. Her second vocation has opened to her the doors of repertoires from the shadows of the past, from the very first centuries of Christianity and the brotherhood between all Maronite, Syrian Catholic, Orthodox Syrian, Byzantine and Melkite songs.
A nun, a qualified musicologist, anthropologist and singer, she is able to harmonize art with science, and creativity with authenticity with an amazing skill.
. Sister Marie Keyrouz reveals herself as a composer and a mystic poet as well as a brilliant performer. We have here yet annoter example of this chantress's imaginative excellence and control, combined with her usual quite extraordinary fluency. Highly recommended.
Gramaphone
. Singing Sister's gift from God.. Sister Marie Keyrouz is a glorias advertissement for the message she carries.
The Sydney Morning Herald
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