Alumni Faculty

Jon Clawson

Visiting Instructor of Music; Interim Director of Choral Activities

Jon Clawson
Education

  • M.M. Choral Conducting, East Carolina University, 2024
  • B.A. Music and History, Southern Virginia University, 2021

Courses

  • Music: Conducting, Diatonic Harmony
  • Choir: Men’s Chorus, Chamber Singers

Teaching Positions & Professional Experience

  • Joined Southern Virginia University faculty in 2024
  • Graduate Assistant, East Carolina University, 2022–24
  • Director of Music Ministries, First United Methodist Church, Fuquay Varina, NC, 2022–24
  • Principal Choral Scholar and Bass Section Leader, Grace Episcopal Church, Lexington, VA, 2019–22
  • Choral Studies Intern, Southern Virginia University, 2018–22
  • Director of Music, Greenville United Methodist Church, Greenville, VA, 2018–19
  • Organist and Choirmaster, Falling Spring Presbyterian Church, Glasgow, VA, 2017–18

Scholarship & Creative Work

  • Performed the works of J. S. Bach on 20th Century North American-built organs

Memberships

  • American Choral Directors Association
  • American Guild of Organists
  • Phi Kappa Phi
  • Pi Kappa Lambda
  • Phi Alpha Theta