About Mark Frazier

Mark Frazier is currently Organist/Associate Director of Worship Arts at the Clarendon United Methodist Church in Arlington, VA, having followed the late J. Reilly Lewis in this position. He frequently plays organ, harpsichord, and piano with ChorSinfonica and the Rockville Bach Academy based in Rockville, MD. with their bi-yearly conversation concerts. He was one of the five "government approved" private contract organists for Weddings and funerals at the Fort Myer Army Base in Arlington, VA, and has served as aural programmer and synthesist for diverse area theatrical groups and for the Washington Vocal Consortium, all of the greater metropolitan DC area. He has appeared as a recitalist with the Organ Historical Society’s National Convention, and has served congregations in 6 US states. As a composer Mr. Frazier won the American Guild of English Handbell Ringers Area II composition contest while still in high school, and the national Anthem Composition Contest sponsored by the Fairfax Methodist Church in Fairfax, VA. He has composed numerous other choral pieces on commission from churches in North Carolina and New Hampshire. “Mr. Mark”, as the children he works with call him, enthusiastically loves the fact that music education is one of the most totally engaging of art forms and disciplines - one that encompasses the whole person - mind, body, and soul.