Victor Clairmont is a professional musician and teacher, who has sat on the board of directors for multiple charities throughout his life. He studied for years under the dramatic soprano, Sharon Sweet, who sang at San Fransico City Opera, the Metroplitan Opera, and Covent Gardens for years. Mr. Clairmont himself has performed all over the U.S. and overseas with reoccurring opportunities at Carnegie Hall to sing Beethoven’s 9th, (Ode to Joy) Mahler’s 2nd (The Symphony of a Thousand) Mahler’s 8th (The Transfiguration of Faust) as a part of the Westminster Symphonic Choir, alongside The New York Philharmonic Orchestra, and has performed from Bach’s Liebeslieder to excerpts from Mendelssohn’s Elijah, while singing at other halls such as The Kennedy Center, Nassau Presbyterian Church, Princeton Chapel, and many others. He has also worked alongside Donald Dumpson and the Jubilee singers to help spread Negro Spiritual music throughout America as both member and solo guest singer. Earlier in 2013 he toured as part of the cast of ALABAMA GO!, as a lead singer out of Miami which toured in Spain and Portugal, spreading gospel and jazz music into prestigious venues such as the Palaue de la Musica in Barcelona. Mr. Clairmont has also worked for a time with Marnie Nixon, the renowned musical theater actress who did voice-over’s for the movies “The King and I” and “My Fair Lady”, as the lead singer for the main female actresses. His accompanist and other vocal coach was Dr. Akiko Hosaki at Westminster along with J.J. Penna.
Ever the avid entrepreneur, Mr. Clairmont has sat on directors boards for non profit charities throughout New Jersey where he currently resides and works. Whether on stage before thousands, in a board room discussing policy, to the classroom with students, to gardening outside, Mr. Clairmont is a man that has kept moving and is always at ease. Though he studied specifically voice performance at Westminster Choir College in Princeton New Jersey, he currently works as a Process Assistant at Amazon since the start of 2020.
