Clair Rozier is an accomplished performer, teacher, choral conductor, and church musician, having performed hundreds of organ concerts throughout the United States and in Europe over her 40-year career.
Rozier 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 Church, she was privileged to oversee the acquisition of the Dobson, Opus 84, pipe organ in 2007, and developed a thriving music ministry with choirs for all ages. Highlights of her ministry included leading choral residencies at the Cathedrals of Wells, Ely, Lichfield, and St. David’s-Wales in the UK, and at St. Patrick’s in Dublin.
In Washington, DC, Rozier started her organ studies with Richard Roeckelein as a high school student at the National Cathedral School and made her performing debut in school worship services in the Washington National Cathedral. She continued organ study through her undergraduate and graduate years with Dr. Barbara Thomson and Dr. David Mulbury, at Goucher College and the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, respectively. At the Eastman School of Music, she earned the Doctor of Musical Arts with David Craighead, and subsequently won the Prix d’Excellence from the French National Conservatory in Rueil-Malmaison as a student of Marie-Claire Alain.
Rozier was assistant professor of music at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, NC, where she taught organ, church music, and music theory from 1986–1991. She then relocated to the Philadelphia area where she was organist and director of music at the Ardmore Presbyterian Church until 1999. She has performed organ recitals and led workshops sponsored by churches, colleges, and chapters of the American Guild of Organists. She was a clinician for both the 2000 and 2002 AGO National Conventions and has served as a faculty member for multiple AGO Pipe Organ Encounters. A longtime AGO member, she founded the Wilmington, NC chapter in 1988 and served as dean for the Philadelphia and Wilmington chapters.
