Clay Price is in his first year as Director of Choral Studies at Loyola University Maryland, where he conducts the Loyola Singers and the Repertory Choir and teaches undergraduate music classes.

Dr. Price earned a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in choral conducting from the University of South Carolina, a Master of Music degree in conducting from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and a Bachelor of Music in music education from Belmont University. Prior to coming to Loyola, he served as Director of Choral Activities at the State University of New York at Oswego and the Director of Choral Studies at the University of Rio Grande, in Rio Grande, Ohio. He has studied conducting with William Carroll, Richard Cox, Deen Entsminger, Andrew Gowan, Robert Gregg, Sherry Hill Kelly, Larry Wyatt, and Welborn Young, and has conducted in master classes led by Hilary Apfelstadt, Rodney Eichenberger, and Weston Noble.

Dr. Price is an active clinician. His article on the sacred choral music of Cyril Rootham was published in the September 2013 Choral Journal. He holds memberships in the American Choral Directors’ Association, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, and Pi Kappa Lambda.

Mr. Mark St. Pierre

Mark St. Pierre has been a music educator and a professional musician for over 30 years. His degrees include a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in Music Education from Towson University. Outside of being the instructor of the Jazz Ensemble and Jazz Combo at Loyola University, Mark is also a music educator at Loch Raven Technical Academy where he directs the 6th, 7th, and 8th-grade concert bands, steel pan/percussion ensembles, and jazz ensemble. Mark has been a presenter and curriculum writer for Baltimore County Public Schools Music Program, a workshop director at Peabody Institute, a clinician on hand drum and drum set techniques at Gordon Miller Music, Mid Atlantic Drum, and Mars Music and a freelance musician to local bands and ensembles, covering styles that include jazz, Latin, funk, rock, pop, symphonic, folk, and African.