Dr. Niké St. Clair

• Director of Choral Activities at California Polytechnic University, Pomona
• Solo and Small Ensemble Singer
• Los Angeles Master Chorale Conductor
• La Verne Church of the Brethren

Born and raised in Hungary, Niké St. Clair attended the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, Hungary and earned a bachelor’s degree in music specializing in Choral Conducting, Music Education, Aural Skills. Having completed her studies at the Liszt Academy of Music, St. Clair immigrated to Los Angeles to earn her master and doctorate degrees in Choral Conducting at the USC Thornton School of Music. Currently the Director of Choral Activities at California Polytechnic University in Pomona, her duties include directing the choirs, as well as teaching courses in conducting and musicianship.

Dr. St. Clair has been a master teacher instructing music educators with the Kodály inspired choral and musicianship skill development techniques. She has taught musicianship and choral conducting for the Kodály Association of Southern California, West Texas Kodály Initiative (Texas Tech University) and Intermuse Academy for Brigham Young University. She has been a presenter at CASMEC and OAKE.

St. Clair is in her twenty third year performing with Los Angeles Master Chorale. She is one of the small-ensemble members in the LAMC’s two internationally touring productions both of which stage-directed by acclaimed director, Peter Sellars: Lagrime di San Pietro and the most recently premiered Music to Accompany a Departure. Both productions had the distinct honor of providing opening performances at the renown Salzburg Festival in Austria.

As a soloist, St. Clair enjoys performing from the vast and rewarding oratorio repertoire. Amongst other works, she sang the solos in Handel’s Messiah, Israel in Egypt, Alexander’s Feast, Dixit Dominus, J. S. Bach’s Magnificat, B Minor Mass, St. Matthew and St. John Passions, Christmas Oratorio; Mozart’s Requiem, C Minor Mass, Mahler’s Second Symphony, Stravinsky’s Les Noces.

As an ensemble singer, highlights of St. Clair’s movie soundtracks include Star Wars, Avatar, Frozen, Godzilla, Transformers, The Minions, Pixels, Big Hero 6, Earth, Ice Age, Despicable Me, Jumanji, Jungle Cruise, Venom, Mulan, X-Men, Wreck–It Ralph, Sing, Super Pets.

St. Clair is in her seventeenth year of directing the Sanctuary Choir at the La Verne Church of the Brethren. She has led four international choir tours to Hungary, Denmark-Germany, France, and Ireland.