Richard St. Clair

Born in 1946, Richard St. Clair started composing at age 16, completed music studies at Harvard where he earned a PhD in composition. In 1969 he broke from the academic atonal style then in vogue and started writing in a neoclassical fusion style using both atonal and pandiatonic/tonal/polytonal elements. He has composed over 500 works of all types, including music from his erstwhile years in Buddhism. He wrote a personal SATB hymnal of 215 original pieces on texts by …Read More