Andrew Clark

Andrew Clark is the Director of Choral Activities and Senior Lecturer on Music at Harvard University, where he serves as Music Director and Conductor of the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, the Harvard Glee Club, the Harvard Summer Chorus, and Cambridge Common Voices. He teaches courses in conducting, choral literature, and music and disability studies in the Department of Music.

Clark’s work with the Harvard Choral Program centers on empowering individuals and communities through choral music—fostering artistic excellence, community-building, and joy. Since joining Harvard in 2010, he has led the Harvard Choruses in performances at the Kennedy Center, Boston Symphony Hall, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and venues across the United States, Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America. His choral-orchestral performances span repertoire from the Baroque era to seminal works of the 20th and 21st centuries and have earned critical acclaim. He has commissioned and premiered over fifty new works and in 2016 launched the Harvard Choruses New Music Initiative to support undergraduate composers. 

Clark has cultivated community partnerships with youth music education programs, correctional institutions, healthcare settings, overnight shelters, senior-care communities, and other organizations that operate beyond the traditional boundaries of arts practice. He has also organized Harvard residencies with a wide range of distinguished artists, including Sweet Honey in the Rock, The Crossing, The Aeolians, the Lorelei and Antioch ensembles, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, María Guinand, Harry Christophers, Craig Hella Johnson, Masaaki Suzuki, and Rosephanye Powell, among others.

His choirs have been praised as “first-rate” (Boston Globe), “cohesive and exciting” (Opera News), and “beautifully blended” (Providence Journal), with performances described as “passion, conviction, adrenalin, [and] coherence” (Worcester Telegram). He has collaborated with the National Symphony Orchestra, Pittsburgh and New Haven Symphonies, Boston Pops, Handel and Haydn Society, Rhode Island Philharmonic, Boston Philharmonic, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Trinity Wall Street Choir, the Washington Chorus, Stephen Sondheim, Ben Folds, and the late Dave Brubeck.

Before joining Harvard, Clark served as Artistic Director of the Providence Singers and Director of Choral Activities at Tufts University. He is a founding faculty member of Notes from the Heart, a summer music program near Pittsburgh for children and young adults with disabilities and chronic illness. He holds degrees from Wake Forest, Carnegie Mellon, and Boston Universities, where he studied with Ann Howard Jones, David Hoose, and the late Robert Page. He recently completed an Advanced Certificate in Disability Studies from the City University of New York.

He lives in Medford, Massachusetts, with his wife, Amy Peters Clark, and their daughters, Amelia Grace and Eliza Jane.