Christopher Jasper

 Founder & Director, Gregorian Chant Academy 

Christopher Jasper, founder and director of the Gregorian Chant Academy, began singing in choirs and Gregorian scholas as a young boy soprano in 1997 and has studied and performed Gregorian Chant with dedication ever since, directing ensembles in various locations since 2007.​

In 2025, he was invited to help teach Gregorian Chant at a summer conference at the Abbey of Solesmes—where he had studied 15 years prior. In 2022 and again in 2023, Christopher organized and hosted the world’s first and second online international Gregorian Chant conferences. These landmark events featured esteemed speakers such as Msgr. Alberto Turco, Prof. Giacomo Baroffio, Dr. William Mahrt, Bishop Athanasius Schneider, Dr. Edward Schaefer, Fr. Chad Ripperger, Dr. Jennifer Donelson-Nowicka, and many others.

Religious Life & Personal Background:

Originally pursuing a career in acting and filmmaking, Christopher graduated from the New York Film Academy in Hollywood in 2008. However, after witnessing the moral degradation of the entertainment industry firsthand, he chose to leave that path behind. While supporting himself as a professional welder and fabricator, he redirected his life toward pursuing a career in sacred music.

In 2014, he entered the traditional Benedictine Monastero di San Benedetto in Norcia, Italy—now an abbey—living life as a Postulant. Though he ultimately discerned it was not his vocation, he left as a Benedictine Oblate and continues to live out that spiritual affiliation to this day.

Entrepreneurship & Academy Foundation:

As early as 2010, Christopher had a dream of building a professional online education in Gregorian Chant. In January 2021, he founded the Gregorian Chant Academy on YouTube while simultaneously launching a fine woodworking business to pay the bills. By February 2022, he launched the Beta version of his online master course  which immediately sold out and he closed the woodworking business to devote himself full-time to the Academy. In 2023, Christopher initiated a merger between GCA and Floriani Sacred Music; the GCA became Floriani's  official online educational division and Christopher became the fifth member of the ensemble. In July of 2025, Floriani and the GCA separated to operate as individual entities once again in order to allow greater flexibility and efficiency in pursuing their respective missions while maintaining a strategic partnership.

Vocal Pedagogy:

In January 2025, Christopher began a two-year fully accredited program through Vocal Process Ltd, based in the UK, to become an internationally certified singing teacher. He now offers in-person and online voice lessons as well.​

He lives in the rural mountains of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho with his wife and five children, where they attend St. Joan of Arc Catholic church, a Traditional Latin Mass parish served by the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter.

​Key Directing Positions:

Over the years, Christopher has directed chant at numerous locations, including:

• Mel Gibson's private Holy Family Chapel in Agoura Hills, CA 

• the historic Five Wounds church in San Jose, CA 

• Cathedral of St Thomas Aquinas in Reno, NV 

• St Joan of Arc Catholic Church in Coeur d'Alene, ID 

Education & Training:

In addition to personal study and experience, some of his formal studies and training include:​

• Advanced studies at the Abbey of Solesmes (2010) under the direction of the late Dom Daniel Saulnier of Solesmes. 

• Advanced studies at Le Centre d'Etudes Superieures de la Renaissance in Tours, France (2013) under the direction of the late Dom Daniel Saulnier

• Former postulant (2014) and current oblate of the traditional Benedictine Abbey of St Benedetto in Norcia, Italy.

• Regular correspondence with Dom Saulnier, Msgr Alberto Turco and Giacomo Baroffio

• Schola Cantor and choir member under Mr Jeffrey Morse (2001-2007) at St Stephen the First Martyr, in Sacramento, CA (Mr. Morse was friend and student of the late Dr Mary Berry/Sr Thomas More)

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"Chris Jasper is a brilliant young chant scholar...

Those who know Chris expect great things from him.

Chris Jasper is in a sense a musical 'grandchild' of

[Dr Mary Berry/Sister Thomas More.]"

~ Jeffrey Morse on Chant Cafe, 2010