Richard Clark, Associate Professor Emeritus
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Richard Clark is associate professor emeritus of music and coordinator of choral studies. He was a member of the University of Oregon faculty from 1982-2007, becoming emeritus in 2000. Clark teaches undergraduate and graduate conducting, and is also on the music education faculty.
Over the past thirty years Clark has taught and directed elementary, secondary, university, community, and church choirs in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Texas, and Germany. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Humanities from Eastern Oregon State College, a Master of Arts degree in Music History from the University of Oregon, and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Choral Conducting and Literature from the University of Washington. He was director of choral music and taught Humanities for seven years at Walla Walla High School in Washington state. Since then, he has taught at the University of Washington, the University of Texas of the Permian Basin, and Idaho State University.
Choirs under Clark's direction have performed at state, divisional, and national conventions of the American Choral Directors Association and at state and divisional conventions of the Music Educators National Conference.
Dr. Clark was a founding member of the professional Male Ensemble Northwest. He is a past divisional president of ACDA and has held a variety of offices in that organization and in MENC. As an adjudicator, clinician, and guest conductor, he has traveled from Alaska to California and from Oregon to Oklahoma. He was an atelier conductor at the Strasbourg Europa Cantat of 1985, and is a member of the administrative and teaching staff of the internationally-acclaimed Oregon Bach Festival.
