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Thomas Clark
Phone: (336)770-3251
Email: tclark@ncarts.edu
Thomas Clark, born 1949 in Michigan, earned three degrees from The University of Michigan, including a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in 1976. He studied composition with Pulitzer Prize winner Leslie Bassett, Eugene Kurtz, electroacoustic music with George Balch Wilson, conducting with Sydney Hodkinson, and music theory with Wallace Berry and Richmond Browne. He was trombonist for Contemporary Directions, Michigan’s Rockefeller Foundation supported new music repertory ensemble, and elsewhere studied trombone with contemporary virtuoso trombonist Stuart Dempster.
After teaching at The University of Michigan, Indiana University, Pacific Lutheran University, and for 10 summers at the National Music Camp in Interlochen, Michigan, in 1976 Dr. Clark joined the composition and music theory faculties of the University of North Texas. There he developed the New Music Performance Lab and served as Chair of the Doctor of Musical Arts program and Director of CEMI, the Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia. He went on to serve eight years as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and one year (2000-2001) as Interim Dean of the UNT College of Music. As Dr. Clark retires in August of 2004 from the UNT faculty after a 33-year college teaching career, it is expected he will be named a Professor Emeritus of the university.
Active in music societies, he has served as President of the Texas Society for Music Theory, Regional Chair and National Council member of the American Society of University Composers (now S.C.I.), and South Central Chapter President of the College Music Society. He is a member of Pi Kappa Lambda music honors fraternity and an honorary member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia.
Clark’s compositions have been performed at festivals throughout the U.S.A., in Canada and Japan, three times at the Brno International Music Festival in the Czech Republic, and at the Festival Internacional Alfonso Reyes in Monterrey, Mexico. Several of his works, affiliated with BMI, are published by Borik Press and recorded on Centaur Records. His writing has appeared in Perspectives of New Music, In Theory Only, Computer Music Journal, New Groves Dictionary of American Music, and Contemporary Composers (published by St. James Press of London). Co-author with Larry Austin of the text, Learning to Compose (1989), Clark also authored ARRAYS: A Worktext of Musical Patterns for Aural Development, published in 1992.
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