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Thomas Clark

voc, *1949 US
Composer of Rock, Electronic and Classical
A.k.a. Thomas S. Clark

Thomas Clark (b. 1949) is an American composer and music educator, Director of School of Music and Professor at the Texas State University, as well as the Professor Emeritus at the University of North Texas. He studied composition with Leslie Bassett and trombone with Stuart Dempster, earning a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from The University of Michigan in 1976. In 1976, Thomas joined the music faculty at the University of North Texas. He established the New Music Performance Lab there, served as a Chair of the DMus program, and eventually became a director of the Center For Experimental Music And Intermedia, University Of North Texas, Denton (1993–95). Thomas Clark also served as an Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Interim Dean of the UNT College of Music, retiring from the University in 2004. Some of his prior teaching positions included The University of Michigan, Indiana University, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, and the National Music Camp in Interlochen, Michigan. During his tenure at UNT, Clark was a close colleague of Larry Austin who joined the faculty a few years later. They oversaw CEMI's transition from the hybrid analog/digital systems to software synthesis on UNIX-based workstations, and co-authored Learning to Compose: Modes, Materials, and Models of Musical Invention textbook in 1989. From 2004 until 2008, Thomas Clark worked as Dean of the School of Music at the North Carolina School of the Arts, an affiliated UNC campus. He also served as an Executive Director of the A.J. Fletcher Opera Institute. His writing has appeared in Perspectives Of New Music, Computer Music Journal, In Theory Only, and New Groves Dictionary of American Music. Clark also wrote an aural development textbook ARRAYS (1992) and a biography Larry Austin: Life and Works of an Experimental Composer (2012).

Genres

• Rock
• Electronic
• Classical

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