Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Affiliations
Certification
Timeline
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Clarance Smith

St Louis Park

Overview

2026
2026
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Substitute Musician

Various Congregations
Twin Cities
08.1996 - 03.2025
  • For the past 30 years, I have enjoyed serving as a substitute musician at various congregations within the Minneapolis and St Paul synods. Most recently, I have been serving at Woodlake Lutheran in Richfield, MN. The vast majority of the congregations have been ELCA churches. Other denominations include Methodists and Christian Science churches. This experience has provided me with a close look wide variety of worship styles.

Business Manager

MN Compline Choir
Minneapolis
09.1996 - 06.2007
  • I managed communications, staff, tours, and finances for this choral organization. The Compline Choir provided an online and radio-broadcast presence on radio station WCAL (St Olaf College) every Sunday night for several years. The radio station regularly communicated that the online broadcast of the Office of Compline routinely provided the highest listenership ratings for their station.

Part-time Organist and Choir Director

Faith Lutheran Church (ELCA)
Bellaire
08.1978 - 08.1993
  • Provided accompaniment for church choirs and other musicians participating in worship. Accompanied congregation hymn singing. Provided msuical support for Lutheran liturgy.

Risk Management Officer

Huntington National Bank
Plymouth
  • Coordinated with senior management to establish risk appetite and tolerance levels. This was my final role within a 40-year banking career that began in 1983 and completed with my planned retirement on 6/20/2023.

Education

Bachelor of Arts -

University of Texas
Austin, TX

Skills

  • I have a deep and abiding respect and admiration for Lutheran theology and its various styles of worship
  • I possess the ability to provide rehearsal and performance leadership for choral and instrumental music
  • I am always seeking to enhance spirituality within myself and others by communicating and fostering spiritual practices within the community
  • I am seeking joy and mutual support within a congregational setting

Affiliations

  • I have had multiple opportunities to volunteer within the larger ELCA. My denominational roles have included service on the Minneapolis Area Synod Council, the ELCA Churchwide Church Council, membership on the Board of Luther Seminary, and a board role at Global Refuge (formerly LIRS).

Certification

  • I was a private organ student, 1979-1983, of Dr Robert Jones, Moores School of Music at University of Houston.

Timeline

Business Manager

MN Compline Choir
09.1996 - 06.2007

Substitute Musician

Various Congregations
08.1996 - 03.2025

Part-time Organist and Choir Director

Faith Lutheran Church (ELCA)
08.1978 - 08.1993
  • I was a private organ student, 1979-1983, of Dr Robert Jones, Moores School of Music at University of Houston.

Risk Management Officer

Huntington National Bank

Bachelor of Arts -

University of Texas

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