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Dr. Clair Rozier
Interim Minister of Music

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Clair Rozier is an organist, conductor, teacher and performer. A native of Washington D.C., Dr. Rozier received her earliest musical training on the piano from her mother, who later encouraged her to study organ in her teens. As a high school student at the National Cathedral for Girls, she was privileged to play the Cathedral organ in school worship services. She pursued her organ study as an undergraduate at Goucher College, MD, and earned her master’s and doctorate in organ performance from Cincinnati Conservatory and Eastern School of Music, respectively. Her teachers include Richard Roeckelein, Barbara Thomson, David Mulbury, David Craighead. She also studied with Marie-Claire Alain at the Conservatory at Rueil-Malmaison, France, where she was awarded the Prix-d’Excellence.

 

She recently retired as Director of Music and Organist at St. David’s Episcopal Church, a large suburban parish in Wayne, PA, where she served for 25 years. At St. David’s, she oversaw the acquisition of the Dobson, Opus 84, pipe organ in 2007, and developed a thriving music ministry with choirs for all ages. She conducted the adult choir in annual concerts of choral masterworks including works of Fauré, Duruflé, Mozart, Handel, Lauridsen, Britten, Vaughan Williams. She led choral residencies at the Cathedrals of Wells, Ely, Lichfield and St. David’s-Wales in the UK, and at St. Patrick’s in Dublin. She moved to the Philadelphia area in 1991 to serve as director of music at Ardmore Presbyterian Church.

 

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