David Clark

Biography

Professor Clark graduated with a BM in music education and a MM in jazz performance from the University of Louisville in Kentucky. Dave is currently an ABD doctoral candidate in Bellarmine University’s Annsley Frazier Thornton School of Education. His dissertation topic is Sounding the Human Condition: Music as a Conduit for Understanding Social Change. As a student at U of L, Dave won the school’s Concerto Competition where he performed the Glazounov Saxophone Concerto and received a Certificate of Merit for Outstanding Performance at the Notre Dame Jazz Festival. He has had the good fortune to study with Harry Pickens, Wessell Anderson, Don Braden, Sim Flora, and John La Barbera.

Dave has performed with such diverse artists as Benny Golson, Clark Terry, Randy Brecker, Stanley Turrentine, James Moody, Harry Pickens, Nancy Wilson, Laurence Hobgood, Miles Griffith, the Louisville Orchestra, the Dells, Tammy McCann, Keke Wyatt, Don Braden, Yuja Wang, Delfeayo Marsalis, and Christian McBride. He has performed at the Umbria Jazz Festival in Perugia, Italy, as well as the Montreaux Jazz Festival in Montreaux, Switzerland. He also has performed several times at the Jazz Educators Network Conference and as part of a good will tour and educational exchange programs in Barbados, and South Africa. Dave also played in the sax section with the Louisville Orchestra featuring pianist Yuja Wang on the Grammy-winning work, The American Project.

Dave is a Yanagisawa Saxophone Artist and makes his home in Louisville, KY, where he is the Director of Jazz Studies at the University of Louisville.  

Research Interests

Jazz History, African American Music

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