The Authors
Andrew Goldstein and David Clayton are fathers, Catholics, educators, and the co-authors of Musica Domestica.
Andrew Goldstein
Andrew Goldstein is a husband, father of five daughters, and a Catholic musician. He spent over ten years as a church music director, and now as a member of The Vigil Project travels around the world helping musicians and pastors revive sacred music, pave a highway for devotional music, reclaim song in the home, and discover the riches of the Liturgy of the Hours. As a lecturer and educator, he is regarded for his balanced and integrated approach to Catholic music, offering achievable approaches to implementing excellent music in even the smallest of parish contexts.
He is the co-founder of Seattle’s eclectic chamber music series: Emerald City Music, and for over fifteen years has worked across the United States and Europe as a consultant to orchestras, opera houses, and music venues. Most notably, Andrew worked closely with GRAMMY-award-winning cellist David Finckel and pianist Wu Han as their Artistic Administrator, planning major projects like Korea’s Chamber Music Today and California’s Music@Menlo. His efforts in reviving classical music have been recognized by The New York Times, The Seattle Times, New Music USA, and has been featured in Oxford University Press’s The Savvy Musician 2.0, a standard textbook for collegiate arts management studies.
A musician himself, Andrew sings professionally with the Saint Hildegard Project and was a founding member of Vox Olympia. He co-directs the youth schola at St. Thomas More Academy in South Bend, IN, and is the Director of Music with the Dominican community at Saint Patrick - St Hedwig Parish. He holds a Bachelor of Music from The Hartt School at the University of Hartford and a graduate certificate in Nonprofit Management from Northeastern University.
His writing has appeared in Word on Fire’s Evangelization & Culture Journal, the Huffington Post, and Andrew writes frequently for his online publication, Catholic Musician. Alongside author David Clayton, Andrew is co-author of Word on Fire’s Musica Domestica (Fall 2026), a two-volume book of hymns, chants, psalms, and folk songs presented to revive a culture of music and prayer in the home.
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David Clayton
David Clayton is the Director of Strategic Partnerships and Artist-in-Residence of Scala Foundation. David is an internationally known artist, teacher, writer, and broadcaster. Academically, his interests center on transforming contemporary culture through beauty, innovation, and creativity, with particular emphasis on liturgy, art, and music.
David has a Bachelor’s and Master’s in Materials Science from Oxford University and a Master’s in Metallurgical Engineering from Michigan Technological University. David trained as an iconographer in the Byzantine tradition with renowned iconographer Aidan Hart in England. He also studied portraiture and the academic method of naturalistic painting and drawing (developed in the High Renaissance) in Florence, Italy.
He is also currently Dean of the Faculty of Sacred Arts of Pontifex University, an online Catholic university, where he designed the unique and influential Master of Sacred Arts program.
In 2009, he moved to the US from his native England to serve as Artist-in-Residence and Lecturer in Liberal Arts at Thomas More College of Liberal Arts in New Hampshire, where many of his works hang in the chapel. Aside from Thomas More College, major commissions include work for the Maryvale Institute in Birmingham, England; Pluscarden Monastery in Elgin, Scotland, and the London Oratory.
He has published many popular and academic articles and has been the resident writer on sacred art for the New Liturgical Movement website since 2009. He writes regularly about art and culture for his publication The Way of Beauty. His published books include:
Musica Domestica (to be published by Word on Fire, November 2026)
The Way of Beauty: Liturgy, Education, and Inspiration for Family, School, and College
The Vision for You: How to Discover the Life You Were Made For
The Little Oratory: A Beginner’s Guide to Praying in the Home
Veiling to Reveal: John Paul II’s Theology of the Body and the Role of Clothing in Christian Art and Anthropology.
Clayton has also illustrated several books, including God’s Covenant with You by Scott Hahn and The Sacred Heart of Jesus by William Fahey.
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