Currently serving the College of Music as Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, Thomas Clark earned a doctor of musical arts degree from The University of Michigan, studying composition with Pulitzer Prize winner Leslie Bassett and Eugene Kurtz, electroacoustic 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. He also studied trombone with contemporary virtuoso trombonist Stuart Dempster.
After teaching at The University of Michigan, the National Music Camp in Interlochen, Indiana University and Pacific Lutheran University, Clark joined the composition and music theory faculties of the University of North Texas in 1976. He developed the New Music Performance Lab and served as chair of the doctor of musical arts program and director of the Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia.
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.
Clark's compositions have been performed at festivals throughout the United States, 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. His works are published by Borik Press and American Composer Editions 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, Clark also authored ARRAYS: A Worktext of Musical Patterns for Aural Development published in 1992.
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