Floyd Rawleigh

Choir, Voice

MM (Temple University), BMus (Roberts Wesleyan College)

Westminster Presbyterian Church — Choral Director
CSSM since 1983

A native of western New York, baritone Floyd Rawleigh received his undergraduate training in music education, voice and piano at Roberts Wesleyan College in Rochester. He earned a Master of Music from Temple University where he studied voice with Christine Anderson, music education with Edwin Gordon and music theory with Stimson Carrow. In his 37 years of teaching, Floyd has taught more than 10,000 students how to sing. For 31 years, he served as a middle school choral director in the Downingtown Area School District, retiring from that position in June of 2022. In the end, his program included 400 seventh and eighth grade singers in four different, award winning choirs. Prior to teaching in Downingtown, he also taught in Lake Luzerne, New York and at the University of Valley Forge. He has also taught music theory, voice, music education and choral conducting classes at Lancaster Bible College. In addition to his choral and music theater responsibilities at Downingtown Middle School, Floyd was, for ten seasons, the music director for Downingtown High School’s music theater program. In his tenure in Downingtown, he directed 35 music theater productions. He has been involved in church music for 30 years as well, most recently serving as the Director of Choirs at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Lancaster, PA where he directs both the Sanctuary and Matins choirs as well as supervising the children’s choir program. Floyd has also been involved with the Csehy Summer School of Music, a Christian music camp which meets on the campus of Cairn University in Langhorne, PA, serving as its artistic director from 2001-2018. There, he teaches voice, music theory and directs the choirs. Floyd’s performance credits include numerous appearances as a sacred soloist throughout the Philadelphia and Lancaster areas. He lives in Strasburg with his wife, Janet, also a music educator. Together, they consider it a great joy to have been instrumental in bringing the love, joy and discipline of music to so many students.