Antoine Clark

Adjunct Instructor of Woodwinds

Dr. Antoine T. Clark received his Bachelor of Music in Music Ed., 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 and thereafter, continued his studies at Wayne State University, in Detroit, MI., pursuing a degree in Orchestral Studies. Dr. Clark received his Doctorate of Musical Arts (DMA) degree in Clarinet Performance from The Ohio State University in 2009.

Dr. Clark has participated in music festivals both nationally and internationally, which includes the Grandin Festival, Music '02, Opera Thearte and Orchestra Festival of Lucca, Italy, Barga Opera Festival of Barga Italy, the Ash Lawn Opera Festival, Charlottesville VA, and the Gateways Music Festival in Rochester NY.

While living in Detroit, he 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, MI. He has also performed four seasons as the Principal Clarinetist of the Ash Lawn Opera Festival in Charlottesville, VA. 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, Professor of Music, OSU).

Dr. Clark has served as Adjunct Professor of Clarinet and Saxophone at Randolph College and has held positions as Choral and Band Director at Linkhorne Middle School in Lynchburg, VA. He has performed with the Roanoke Symphony Orchestra, the Harlem Symphony, the Soulful Symphony, an African-American Symphony Orchestra supported by the Baltimore Symphony, the Sphinx Symphony Orchestra, and the Westerville Symphony. He is a member of the Gateway Chamber Ensemble, which comprises members of the Nashville Symphony as well as faculty of Austin Peay State University. In February 2009, the ensemble performed Mozart's "Gran Partita" in Nashville and recorded the work on the Summit music label in the summer of that year. Dr. Clark is currently Adjunct Professor of Clarinet and Saxophone at Kenyon College.