BMOP :: Andrew Clark

Andrew Clark

Conductor

Andrew Clark, artistic director of the Providence Singers, has been recognized by Chorus America as one of our country's most promising young conductors, "enjoying extraordinary rapport, respect, trust, and affection with his singers," and leading "cohesive and exciting" and "amazingly polished" performances praised for their "tremendous invigoration" [The Boston Globe, Providence Journal, Worcester Telegram & Gazette].

An advocate of the music of our time, Mr. Clark has commissioned numerous composers, presented over twenty world premieres, and conducted important contemporary and rarely heard pieces in addition to many performances of well-known choral-orchestral masterworks.

Under his leadership, the Providence Singers was selected by the National Endowment for the Arts to host one of seven American Masterpieces choral festivals in 2007 and received the 2008 Jabez Gorham Award from the Arts & Business Council of Rhode Island for "unwavering commitment to excellence, significant impact in the community, and succesful organizational development."

In addition to his work with the Providence Singers, Mr. Clark serves as music director of the Worcester Chorus, one of the oldest and most celebrated choral arts organizations in the United States, regularly conducting performances in Worcester's historic Mechanics Hall. He has appeared at other prestigious venues including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Cathedrale Notre Dame de Paris, and in Vienna, Budapest, Madrid, Seville, Sorrento, St. Petersburg, Montreal, and throughout the United States.

Mr. Clark has collaborated with renowned organizations including the Kronos Quartet, the Pittsburgh and New Haven Symphony Orchestras, the Boston Pops, Opera Boston, Rhode Island Philharmonic, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Boston Children's Chorus, Newport Baroque Orchestra, and the Newport Jazz Festival, working closely with Dave Brubeck, conductors Mariss Jansons, Neville Marriner, Helmuth Rilling, Keith Lockhart, Larry Rachleff, Gil Rose, and others.

Active as a music educator, Mr. Clark serves as director of choral activities at Tufts University, overseeing a robust and vibrant program that has tripled in size during his tenure. As a distinguished faculty member of the "Notes from the Heart" Music Camp in Pittsburgh, Mr. Clark teaches annually at a summer program for children with disabilities and chronic illness supported by the Woodlands Foundation and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. He regularly appears as a guest conductor, adjudicator, and clinician and was the founding Music Director of the Junior Providence Singers, a high school choral education ensemble.

Mr. Clark received degrees from Wake Forest and Carnegie Mellon Universities, having studied with Grammy-award winning conductor Robert Page, as well as Jameson Marvin, Dale Warland, Vance George, Brian Georelick, David Effron, Gunther Schuller, William Weinert, among others. He previously served on the conducting staff of Harvard and Clark Universities and as assistant conductor of the Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh and the Boston Pops Holiday Chorus. He is a member of the national music honor society, Pi Kappa Lambda.