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March 28, 2008/FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Marla Carpenter, 336-770-3337, carpem@ncarts.edu NCSA SCHOOL OF MUSIC DEAN THOMAS CLARK ACCEPTS NEW APPOINTMENT IN TEXAS
WINSTON-SALEM – Thomas Clark, the dean of the School of Music at the North Carolina School of the Arts, will step down this summer from the position he has held for the past four years to take a new position in Texas. Clark’s resignation is effective July 25. He will become director of the School of Music at Texas State University, the flagship school of the Texas state university system, in San Marcos, Texas. Clark originally came to NCSA in August 2004 from the University of North Texas College of Music in Denton, where he had been associate dean for academic affairs since 1995. “Tom Clark has done a tremendous job of stewardship with the School of Music,” said NCSA Chancellor John Mauceri, who is himself a musician. “We have been lucky to have had Tom as part of our family. He is a very gracious and warm person and his gentle nature and generous spirit will be missed. “We wish him the best with this new opportunity as he returns to Texas, which he holds so dear, to carry on the next chapter of his life and to spend more time with his family and new grandchild.” Mauceri said he expects to name an interim dean later this spring, prior to conducting a nationwide search for a permanent School of Music dean.	Tom Clark
Born 1949 in Michigan, Thomas Clark earned three degrees from The University of Michigan, including a Doctor of Musical Arts in 1976. He studied composition with Pulitzer Prize-winner Leslie Bassett and Eugene Kurtz, electro-acoustic music with George Balch Wilson, conducting with Sydney Hodkinson, and music theory with Wallace Berry and Richmond Browne. He was trombonist for Contemporary Directions, Michigan’s Rockefeller Foundation-supported new music repertory ensemble, and elsewhere studied trombone with contemporary virtuoso trombonist Stuart Dempster. After teaching at The University of Michigan, Indiana University, Pacific Lutheran University, and for 10 summers at the National Music Camp in Interlochen, Mich., in 1976 Clark joined the composition and music theory faculties of the University of North Texas. There he developed the New Music Performance Lab and served as chair of the Doctor of Musical Arts program and director of CEMI, the Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia. He went on to serve eight years as associate dean for Academic Affairs and one year (2000-2001) as interim dean of the UNT College of Music. Clark retired in August of 2004 from the UNT faculty after a 33-year college teaching career. Active in music societies, he has served as president of the Texas Society for Music Theory, regional chair and National Council member of the American Society of University Composers (now S.C.I.), and South Central Chapter president of the College Music Society. He is a member of Pi Kappa Lambda music honors fraternity and an honorary member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia. Clark’s compositions have been performed at festivals throughout the United States, in Canada and Japan, three times at the Brno International Music Festival in the Czech Republic, and at the Festival Internacional Alfonso Reyes in Monterrey, Mexico. Several of his works, affiliated with BMI, are published by Borik Press and recorded on Centaur Records. His writing has appeared in Perspectives of New Music, In Theory Only, Computer Music Journal, New Groves Dictionary of American Music, and Contemporary Composers (published by St. James Press of London). Co-author with Larry Austin of the text “Learning to Compose” (1989), Clark also authored “ARRAYS: A Worktext of Musical Patterns for Aural Development,” published in 1992. The School of Music at NCSA is the only U.S. music school with residential high school, college and graduate programs. It offers concentrations in instrumental performance, vocal performance, composition, and conducting. Students who study from the ninth grade to post-master’s level can receive the high school diploma, College Arts Diploma, Bachelor of Music, Master of Music, or Professional Artist Certificate. An arts conservatory of international renown, the North Carolina School of the Arts was the first state-supported, residential school of its kind in the nation. Established by the N.C. General Assembly in 1963, NCSA became part of the University of North Carolina in 1972. Students from middle school through graduate school train for careers in the arts in five professional schools: Dance, Design and Production (including a Visual Arts Program), Drama, Filmmaking, and Music. More than 1,100 students are enrolled annually; they must audition or interview for admission. For more information, visit the School’s website at www.ncarts.edu. ###
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March 28, 2008/FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Marla Carpenter, 336-770-3337, carpem@ncarts.edu

NCSA SCHOOL OF MUSIC DEAN THOMAS CLARK ACCEPTS
NEW APPOINTMENT IN TEXAS

WINSTON-SALEM – Thomas Clark, the dean of the School of Music at the North Carolina School of the Arts, will step down this summer from the position he has held for the past four years to take a new position in Texas.

Clark’s resignation is effective July 25. He will become director of the School of Music at Texas State University, the flagship school of the Texas state university system, in San Marcos, Texas.

Clark originally came to NCSA in August 2004 from the University of North Texas College of Music in Denton, where he had been associate dean for academic affairs since 1995.

“Tom Clark has done a tremendous job of stewardship with the School of Music,” said NCSA Chancellor John Mauceri, who is himself a musician. “We have been lucky to have had Tom as part of our family. He is a very gracious and warm person and his gentle nature and generous spirit will be missed.

“We wish him the best with this new opportunity as he returns to Texas, which he holds so dear, to carry on the next chapter of his life and to spend more time with his family and new grandchild.”

Mauceri said he expects to name an interim dean later this spring, prior to conducting a nationwide search for a permanent School of Music dean.

Tom Clark

Born 1949 in Michigan, Thomas Clark earned three degrees from The University of Michigan, including a Doctor of Musical Arts in 1976. He studied composition with Pulitzer Prize-winner Leslie Bassett and Eugene Kurtz, electro-acoustic music with George Balch Wilson, conducting with Sydney Hodkinson, and music theory with Wallace Berry and Richmond Browne. He was trombonist for Contemporary Directions, Michigan’s Rockefeller Foundation-supported new music repertory ensemble, and elsewhere studied trombone with contemporary virtuoso trombonist Stuart Dempster.

After teaching at The University of Michigan, Indiana University, Pacific Lutheran University, and for 10 summers at the National Music Camp in Interlochen, Mich., in 1976 Clark joined the composition and music theory faculties of the University of North Texas. There he developed the New Music Performance Lab and served as chair of the Doctor of Musical Arts program and director of CEMI, the Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia. He went on to serve eight years as associate dean for Academic Affairs and one year (2000-2001) as interim dean of the UNT College of Music. Clark retired in August of 2004 from the UNT faculty after a 33-year college teaching career.

Active in music societies, he has served as president of the Texas Society for Music Theory, regional chair and National Council member of the American Society of University Composers (now S.C.I.), and South Central Chapter president of the College Music Society. He is a member of Pi Kappa Lambda music honors fraternity and an honorary member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia.

Clark’s compositions have been performed at festivals throughout the United States, in Canada and Japan, three times at the Brno International Music Festival in the Czech Republic, and at the Festival Internacional Alfonso Reyes in Monterrey, Mexico. Several of his works, affiliated with BMI, are published by Borik Press and recorded on Centaur Records. His writing has appeared in Perspectives of New Music, In Theory Only, Computer Music Journal, New Groves Dictionary of American Music, and Contemporary Composers (published by St. James Press of London). Co-author with Larry Austin of the text “Learning to Compose” (1989), Clark also authored “ARRAYS: A Worktext of Musical Patterns for Aural Development,” published in 1992.

The School of Music at NCSA is the only U.S. music school with residential high school, college and graduate programs. It offers concentrations in instrumental performance, vocal performance, composition, and conducting. Students who study from the ninth grade to post-master’s level can receive the high school diploma, College Arts Diploma, Bachelor of Music, Master of Music, or Professional Artist Certificate.

An arts conservatory of international renown, the North Carolina School of the Arts was the first state-supported, residential school of its kind in the nation. Established by the N.C. General Assembly in 1963, NCSA became part of the University of North Carolina in 1972. Students from middle school through graduate school train for careers in the arts in five professional schools: Dance, Design and Production (including a Visual Arts Program), Drama, Filmmaking, and Music. More than 1,100 students are enrolled annually; they must audition or interview for admission. For more information, visit the School’s website at www.ncarts.edu.

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