Antoine Clark received his Bachelor of Music in Music Education from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2000. He then went on to study at the University of Cincinnati's College Conservatory of Music (CCM) and earned a Masters in Clarinet Performance in 2003. Thereafter, he continued his studies at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, pursuing a degree in Orchestral Studies. Mr. Clark has participated in music festivals both nationally and internationally, including the Grandin Festival, Music '02, Opera Theatre and Orchestra Festival of Lucca, Italy, Barga Opera Festival of Barga, Italy, the Ash Lawn Opera Festival in Charlottesville, Virginia, and the Gateways Music Festival in Rochester, New York.

While living in Detroit, Mr. Clark served as a mentor and principal clarinetist of the Detroit Symphony Civic Orchestra and served one season as the principal clarinetist of the Dearborn Symphony in Dearborn, Michigan. Currently he is in his fifth season as the principal clarinetist of the Ash Lawn Opera Festival in Charlottesville, Virginia. His teachers include Dr. Charles West (VCU), Ronald De Kant (CCM), Theodore Oien (principal clarinetist of the Detroit Symphony), Linnea Nereim (bass clarinetist, Cleveland Orchestra) and James Pyne (former principal clarinetist, Buffalo Philharmonic).

Mr. Clark has served as adjunct professor of clarinet and saxophone at Randolph College and held positions as choral and band director at Linkhorne Middle School in Lynchburg, Virginia. He frequently subs with the Roanoke Symphony Orchestra and has performed as a principal clarinetist with the Soulful Symphony, an African-American Symphony Orchestra supported by the Baltimore Symphony. He has also performed with the Harlem Symphony in New York City and the Westerville Symphony in Westerville Ohio. Mr. Clark is now in his third year of doctoral studies at Ohio State University.

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