Orchestras
Hamilton Philharmonic Orch. Newfoundland Symphony Orch.
Symphony Nova Scotia
Winnipeg Symphony Orch.
Ensembles
Atlantic Arts Trio
Atlantic String Quartet
Continuum
Duo Concertante
Penderecki Quartet
Toronto Chamber Choir
The Scruncheons
VOX 21 (Ireland)
Performers and Conductors Robert Aitken
Karin Aurell
Paul Bendzsa
Daniel Bolshoy
Bill Brennan
Michelle Cheramy
Max Christie
Nancy Dahn
Omar Daniel
Marc David
Edmund Dawe
Ginette Duplessis
Robin Engleman
David Fallis
Victor Feldbrill
Mark Fewer
Peter Gardiner
Rivka Golani
Wallace Halliday
Caroline Hart
Thomas Heinrich
Don Hutton
Beverley Johnston
Lori Klassen
Ken Knowles
Gary Kulesha
Lynne Kuo
Liana Lam
Claude Lapalme
Jane Leibel
Thomas Loewenheim
Doug Miller
Jeffrey McFadden
Leslie Newman
Michael O'Toole
Shannon Peet
Rob Power
Barbara Pritchard
Sylvie Proulx
James Rolfe
Tim Steeves
Simon Streatfield
Kristina Szutor
Bramwell Tovey
Trevor Tureski
Maureen Volk
Don Wherry
Kaori Yamagami
(and others...)
Influences
John Adams, Chet Atkins, Johann Sebastian Bach, Chuck Barry, Bela Bartok, The Beatles, Ludwig van Beethoven, Belgian Chocolate, Leo Brouwer, Ka Nin Chan, Roy Clark, Miles Davis, Deep Purple, Devo, The Doors, The Druglords of George Street, (early) Bob Dylan, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Manuel de Falla, Roberta Flack, Aretha Franklin, Enrique Granados, Jimi Hendrix, John Lee Hooker, Sam Lightnin Hopkins, Mississippi John Hurt, Billy Idol, Keith Jarrett, Kid Creole and the Coconuts, Carole King, Gladys Knight, Kraftwerk, Orlando di Lasso, Led Zeppelin, John Lennon, Witold Lutoslawski, Gustav Mahler, Bob Marley, Martha and the Muffins, Olivier Messiaen, Paul McCartney, Joni Mitchell, Thelonius Monk, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Nirvana, Johannes Ockeghem, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Charlie Parker, Arvo Pärt, The Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Pink Floyd, Maurice Ravel, Steve Reich, Pete Seeger, Dmitri Shostakovich, Igor Stravinsky, Toru Takemitsu, Van Halen, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Tomás Luis de Victoria, Muddy Waters, Anton Webern, Wellbutrin, Stevie Wonder, and pretty much any world music.
Sounds Like
Charo, Jim Nabors, and William Hung. No, no, that's not it... More like Donald Duck, at least when I'm excited. Or Hervé Villechaise, esp. when I say "the plane, the plane!"
I compose contemporary classical music for orchestra, chamber ensembles, solo instruments, voice, and choir, as well as some electronic and jazz music. I have had dozens of works commissioned through various funding agencies (Canada Council, Canadian Broadcasting Company, Newfoundland Arts Council, and others), and my music has been broadcast numerous times on the CBC and performed frequently throughout Canada, and in the United States, England, and Ireland.
I am a professor of composition, music theory, and classical guitar at Memorial University of Newfoundland, a fairly large, East-coast Canadian university with an excellent music programme. I am also the founder and artistic director of the Newfound Music Festival, a contemporary music festival held every February in Newfoundland. I grew up playing rock, pop, jazz, blues, and country music, and only began studying classical music relatively late in life (I had already completed a B.A. in Humanities, and was working as a bus information operator). I continue to play and listen to all these types of music, and many of my compositions reflect my musical eclecticism.
Feedback is always appreciated! You can hear more of my music and download scores for almost every composition I have written at my website.
I was born in Maracaibo, Venezuela, I also lived in Caracas, Lima, Quebec, New York City, New Jersey, Brussels, and Toronto, before moving to exotic Newfoundland in my mid-thirties.
I'm married to Jennifer, a professor of Religious Studies and Popular Culture and Star Trek fan/scholar, and I have three wonderful kids (ages 17, 6, and 2) and my other interests include reading, writing stories and journals, watching and playing baseball, cycling, hiking, and shopping.
Selected Music for Winds (click to listen or download scores) •Memory Quilt (flute and piano)
•Urban Dance Music (3 pieces for alto sax and audio CD, 18')
•Duck Soup (trombone, piano)
Selected Jazz Music (click to listen or download scores) •Urban Dance Music (3 pieces for alto sax and audio CD, 18')
•Late-Night Music (trumpet, piano, bass, drums)
•Jennifer's Tune (piano and bass)
dear clark Knowing that you like our music I thought I'd let you know that we have uploaded 4 new songs in our player, feel free to come listen... They are from our second CD which is now released and should be available in fine record stores close to you
Strings of Counsciousness : Fantomastique Acoustica (CD - Off Rds) www. myspace. com/offlabel
It offers 4 instrumental compositions + their remixes by:
Rothko (UK - BiP_HOp/Trace/Bella Union/Lo) Mira Calix (UK - Warp) Kammerflimmer Kollektief (DE - Staubgold) Gamial Trio (BE - Off) Leafcutter John (UK - Staubgold/Planet Mu) Scanner (UK - Bette/Sub Rosa...) Marsen Jules (DE - CCI) Sutekh (US - Context/Leaf/Soul Jazz/Mille Plateaux) Si-cut. db (UK - BiP_HOp)
Ciao Clark Ross - Una canzone è davvero bella quando le sue note giungono dritte al cuore! - A song is really beautiful when his notes come straight to the heart! - Una canción es realmente hermosa cuando sus notas vienen directamente al corazón!
Thanks for dropping in Clark. Good to hear from you. "Keep Looking for Jesus" is not new, but I had not posted it here before. Glad you liked it. Unfortunately I remain temporarily retired from composing.
Mr. Clark, it's a pleasure to know you at MacJams and find you here at MySpace. Your music is very deep and you're a great musician and composer that i respect you so much. Thanks for accepting me as a friend and I'm so glad that many of us will be able to hear the beauty of your music ..
Happy New Year and wish that it'll be a year of love and peace all over the world.
hey clark, thank you for adding belgian hepc awareness. how very nice to see moorlandt in your top friends list. i love the song he did for us. and might i add: your music, gentleman, sounds great as well. regards from mortsel, belgium, xxx anja xxx
Thanks for your MySpace friendship.
Please stay in touch!
THE LITTLE MERMAID
Music by LERA AUERBACH
Choreography by JOHN NEUMEIER
Staatsoper Hamburg
July 1, 3, 14 • 2007
September 3, 4, 5, 6 • 2007
November 3, 5 • 2007
February 5 • 2008
Hello Clark, long time no hear. How's life in St John's? There a chance i will visit Canada next year, because my daughter's best friend just moved over there, and i more or less promised my daughter we'd visit her friend... Well, i'd love to travel to Canada myself some day, just a great excuse;)
Hey Clark,
Hope everything's great with you. Yes... it's done :-) Here's just a kind invitation to discover my very first album 'waiting again' on my website. Thanks so much, and love from brussels,
- Walt
Thank you for your interest ... an unexpected and welcome surprise ... as was listening to your contrasting tracks ... I really did enjoy listening to your work, I shall be back to listen some more!! ...thank you.
yes we pride ourselves on recording new contemprary composers. recent releases have included Chamber works by Canadian Tom Ingoldsby, Howard Blake, and also a guitar/sax Jazz fuelled album entitled PluckBlow, featuring pieces by Irish composers including Ciaran Farrell, Ian Wilson, and Greg Caffrey.
More information about these and other CDs can be found at www.meridian-records.co.uk
Clark, thanks for the note; the string interlude is fantastic. You've got a real gift for adventurous writing. I'm going to listen to this piece again.
Thank you for the add! If you want watch my website classical guitar video.com, i play Villa-Lobos ,Gilardino,Bach,Castelnuovo-Tedesco. Saluti da Venezia
Let me apologize for not getting back to you more quickly, I was in China and just now able to check my MySpace email. Thank you for your holiday greetings and Happy Belated New Year to you too! Hope your New Year will be filled with joy and success!
Thanks for finding me. Your biography reads very well and all I can say is you should be so proud. I kind of dream of getting to where you are now, musically and academically. I'dlove to do a Phd in music someday.
I really enjoyed your player clips I am now going to check out your Classical Guitar pieces...and guess what!! Leo Brouwer is one of my top 4 favourite composers.
Take care and I an honest (no myspace bullshit LOL) opinion of what you think of my pieces would be really welcome.
Hi Clark, thanks so much for the add. Your music is beautiful- I like it very much. Wish you a happy new year and also greetings from germany---Pike---
Yes, the balance on the recording of "Diverging Level Structures" is a bit converse to the intent of the composition itself. It was recorded using two mics on boom stands inbetween the performers and the audience, and because of it's timbre, the oboe came out as the predominant instrument. Listening to it last night as I loaded it onto the page, I thought the exact same thing (particularly once the glockenspiel comes in). That's not to say there isn't an element of immaturity in terms of orchestration, and there also was the issue (as always) of adequate preparation time for the performers. I think other technical issues prevented them for from focusing more on achieving the optimal ensemble balance. Though god bless them, they put in a great deal of time and effort.
I do enjoy Webern, and the way I handled pitch relationships in "DLS" is perhaps in someways similar to his Five Movements for String Quartet. I hadn't thought about it, but it's a logical connection.
Again, thanks for listening and for your feedback.
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