Andrew Clark
Senior Lecturer on Music
Director of Choral Activities at Harvard
agclark@fas.harvard.edu
Paine Hall 8
617-495-8827

Andrew Clark serves as Director of Choral Activities and Senior Lecturer on Music at Harvard University, leading the Holden Choral Program of nearly 400 singers and five faculty-directed ensembles. Clark is the Music Director and Conductor of the Harvard Glee Club, the Radcliffe Choral Society, and the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum and teaches courses in conducting and music theory in the Department of Music. He has lead Harvard’s Holden Choruses in performances at the Kennedy Center, Salzburg Cathedral, St. Stephen’s Vienna, and throughout Germany and the United States. Under his direction, the Holden Choral Program hosted guest residencies with Harry Christophers and the Handel and Haydn Society, conductors Maria Guinand and Robert Page, and a collaboration with composer John Adams, with Clark conducting the Boston premiere of Adams’ Pulitzer-Prize winning work, On the Transmigration of Souls.The Holden Chorus’s first studio recording with Clark, featuring the choral music of Ross Lee Finney, is scheduled for commercial release in 2012. 

Prior to his appointment at Harvard, Clark was Artistic Director of the Providence Singers, an award-winning choral arts organization earning critical praise for compelling and innovative concerts, dynamic community engagement programs, and distinctive organizational partnerships. Clark was Director of Choral Activities at Tufts University for seven years, and previously served as Music Director of the Worcester Chorus, Chorus Master and Assistant Conductor of Opera Boston, Associate Conductor of the Boston Pops Esplanade Chorus, and Assistant Conductor of the Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh, the chorus of the Pittsburgh Symphony.

An advocate for the music of our time, Clark has commissioned numerous composers, conducting important contemporary and rarely heard pieces as well as regular performances of choral-orchestral masterworks. His choirs have been hailed as “first rate” (Boston Globe), “cohesive and exciting” (Opera News), and “beautifully blended” (Providence Journal), achieving performances of “passion, conviction, adrenalin, [and] coherence” (Worcester Telegram).

Clark conducted the Providence Singers and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project in critically acclaimed commercial recordings of seminal and neglected American works, including Lukas Foss’s cantata The Prairie and Dominick Argento’s oratorio Jonah and the Whale and La Koro Sutro by Lou Harrison.

Clark has led ensembles in prominent venues including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Cathédrale Notre Dame de Paris, Boston’s Symphony Hall, and throughout Europe and North America. He has collaborated with the Pittsburgh and New Haven Symphonies, the Rhode Island Philharmonic, Boston Philharmonic, Stephen Sondheim, Sweet Honey in the Rock, the Trinity Wall Street Choir, the Kronos Quartet, and the Dave Brubeck Quartet, among others, and has performed on NBC’s Today show.

Clark holds degrees from Wake Forest and Carnegie Mellon Universities and is completing doctoral studies at Boston University. Clark’s principal teachers include Ann Howard Jones and Grammy-award winning conductor Robert Page.