Dr. STEPHEN CLARK
clarinet

Stephen Clark, Professor of Music, earned his B.M.E. and M.E.M. degrees from the University of Central Oklahoma, where he was awarded the "Outstanding Senior Music Major Award." He earned his Doctor of Musical Arts (Clarinet) degree from the University of Oklahoma. Clark also studied, as an undergraduate, at the University of Houston.

Dr. Clark was a member of the United States Military Academy Band at West Point, New York (1972-1975). He has performed as clarinetist with the Oklahoma City Symphony, the Nashville Symphony, the Tech Community Symphony, the Cumberland Quintet, and the Lydian Chamber Players. Clark's chamber music performances include live broadcasts on National Public Radio at WPLN in Nashville and at WQZR in New York City.

His principal clarinet teachers include: Stephen Girko (former principal clarinetist of the Dallas Symphony), Peter Simenauer (former associate principal clarinetist of the New York Philharmonic), Dr. David Etherdige (DMA Eastman School of Music), and Dr. Jerry Neil Smith (Ph.D. Eastman School of Music). He has attended numerous clarinet symposia held at: The University of Washington, the University of Minnesota, DePaul University, the University of Denver, The Catholic University of America, the University of Toronto, and the University of Oklahoma.

In addition to teaching the clarinet at APSU, Clark directs the Woodwind Ensemble and teaches woodwind methods and music appreciation classes. Dr. Clark has served on the faculty of the Tennessee Governor's School for the Arts for five summers. He was a clarinet recitalist and lecturer on the faculty of the University of Oklahoma Clarinet Symposium in 1989. In 1992 and 1993, Dr. Clark served as guest conductor of the University of Oklahoma Clarinet Symposium Clarinet Choir. Clark also performed as the clarinet soloist with the Tennessee All State Women's Chorale at the 1995 TMEA Conference in Nashville.

Prior to joining APSU's faculty in 1985, Clark taught at Tennessee Technological University, the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma, the Moore Oklahoma Public School System (band director), the University of Oklahoma (graduate assistant), and served as the assistant conductor of the Oklahoma City Junior Symphony Orchestra.

Dr. Clark has published several articles in The Clarinet (official journal of the International Clarinet Association). His doctoral dissertation, Leon Russianoff: Clarinet Pedagogue, has received critical acclaim in The Clarinet, ClariNetwork International, and The Bulletin of the Council of Research in Music Education.

Clark is a member of: Pi Kappa Lambda, Alpha Chi, Kappa Delta Pi, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, the International Clarinet Association.

E-mail: ClarkS@apsu.edu
Phone: (931) 221-7631