Laurence Rosania

Laurence Rosania is a composer and performer whose music is sung throughout the USA and abroad. A native of Philadelphia, he holds a B.A. in Music from Yale University and an M.A. in Religion & Spirituality from Fordham. Having resided in both Trappist and Zen Buddhist monasteries, his home is in New York City where he moved to work with Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker.

Laurence performs and conducts in the New York area and has been Director of Music at three historic Manhattan churches including the Jesuit Church of St. Francis Xavier, St. Paul the Apostle—the Founding Church of the Paulists and currently at the Capuchin Church of St. John the Baptist.

His popular compositions appear in Breaking Bread, Glory and Praise and the Vietnamese hymnal Thanh Ca Dan Chua . His newest collection: Works of the Heart includes collaborations with OCP composers Jaime Cortez and Luke Mayernik and a new bi-lingual version of “The Supper of the Lord/La Cena del Señor.”