Music

Jarrett joined the staff at Christ Church Cathedral in August of 2006. His primary responsibilities include playing the organ, directing the choir, and overseeing the concert series. In addition he oversees the Webcast along with other technical duties and produces service leaflets, newsletters, and most of the printed material created for the cathedral. He is also on the Diocesan Liturgy Commission and is active as an officer in the local chapter of the American Guild of Organists.

He holds a B.Mus. from Houghton College in Houghton, New York where he studied with John Chappell Stowe and others. He studied with Russell Saunders briefly at the Eastman School of Music and went on to earn a M.Mus from the Indiana University School of Music where he studied organ with Larry Smith and Improvisation with Marilyn Keiser. During graduate school he served as the organ scholar at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Indianapolis under the mentorship of Frank Boles. 

He has led an active concert career while serving Episcopal parishes in Lafayette, IN and Durham, NC., He was the Assistant Organist at St Mark’s Cathedral in Shreveport, LA before moving to New Orleans.

Marc joined the Cathedral parish in 2015. He knew Mr. Follette as organist–choirmaster in Lafayette, Indiana, where he attended church; Marc served as occasional substitute organist. He first played the Cathedral organ for his niece’s wedding in 2005. When Marc and Judith bought a home New Orleans in 2006, Jarrett asked him to substitute during their visits to New Orleans. Marc became assistant organist when he and Judith moved permanently to New Orleans. Marc was a Professor of Chemistry at Cornell, and a Professor of Medicinal Chemistry in the College of Pharmacy at Purdue University, where he was also Associate Dean of Pharmacy, Nursing, and Health Sciences for 19 years. He has played piano since he was 6 years old and organ since he was 15.