On the basis of its own academic, teaching and research experience, PIAMS runs two Higher education courses in Organ experts and in Liturgical-musical Ambrosian philology. Both courses last two-years and are run through a theoretical-practical approach.
According to the academic programmes provided by the Italian Bishops’ Conference the two year courses of higher education in Organ for the liturgy and Choir direction for the liturgy have the goal to develop specific competences and abilities in the field of music for the liturgy They aim for the education of professional figures who can run the sum of the liturgical-musical activities of basilicas, cathedrals, sanctuaries and parish churches, but it also promotes, plans and enhances events of musical culture in the sacred extra-liturgical field, in connection with ecclesiastical and civilian bodies which are involved in such practices.