Joyce Marion Schirner
Bozarth
Joyce Bozarth
is a violinist and soprano soloist who studied with Virginia-Gene Rittenhouse
at Atlantic Union College, with Jascha Brodsky at the
Curtis Institute of Music, and at the Juilliard School of Music. She teaches both
violin and piano and conducts seminars in church music.
Bozarth graduated from Plainfield Academy in
New Jersey, and completed a degree at Washington Missionary College, now
Washington Adventist University. She subsequently earned a master's degree in
secondary education guidance.
Although she always
considered herself a non-composer musician, she began "hearing" music
to Scripture verses after surgery in 1988 for a brain tumor that removed the
"fine arts" section of her brain. She has dedicated this new, highly
unlikely, ability to spreading God’s word. Although her hearing of new music is
a God-given ability, she continues to learn the craft of composition whenever
time allows.
Bozarth has written a cantata, A Holy
People, segments of which were published in 99 New Songs, a songbook
edited by Evelyn Pursley Kopitzke,
which was released in 2003.
ds/2012
Sources:
Biography in 99 New Songs, editor, Evelyn Pursley
Koptitzke, 2003; 14 May 1959, 25; 30 April 1981, 8;
28 June 1984, 13; Joyce Bozarth, "The Brain Tumor," 14 March 1996,
11; The Columbia Union Visitor, 5 April 1979, 12B.