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.
Applied Instructors
Bass - Shawn Simon
Cello - Ismar Gomez
Flute - David LaVorgna
Guitar - Ronald Pearl (classical), Joe DeCara (jazz)
Percussion - Barry Dove
Piano - Grace Eun Hae Kim (website), Kathryn Locke, Anthony Villa (jazz piano)
Saxophone - Lionel Lyles
Trumpet - David Smith
Trombone- Nick Mazziott
Voice - Elizabeth Hart (website), Julie Kurzava
Violin/Viola - Cathleen Jeffcoat