The Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest

Kevin McGregor Clarke

Accomplished organist, imaginative composer and skillful teacher, you have enriched the life of the Episcopal Church of the Incarnation in Dallas, Texas, through a vibrant and eclectic ministry of sacred music.

After earning the bachelor of music degree from Rhode Island College and the Master's of Music in organ performance at the New England Conservatory of Music, you served a year in Washington, D.C., as a fellow in church music at the Washington National Cathedral. After a stint as Organist and Choirmaster at St. John's Anglican Church, St. Croix, and study at Bristol Cathedral in the United Kingdom, you returned to this country and assisted at St. John the Divine Cathedral in Houston before coming to the Church of the Incarnation in 1990.

The music program in this parish of 3,600 communicants reflects your fondness for the Anglican music tradition. Your numerous choirs perform an innovative mix of classical and contemporary English works, in addition to many of your own compositions, during parish services every Sunday.

Incarnation choir members have been invited to sing in English cathedrals, including Westminster Abbey, for two weeks every other summer in recent years. Your ministry extended throughout Dallas during most of the 1990s when you produced performances of services at the Church of the Incarnation for airing on that city's classical radio station.

For your gifts of music making and teaching while furthering the rich tradition of Anglican music, we are pleased to confer upon you the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa.

May 21, 2002 Austin, Texas