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Bio (Shorter)

Clark Ross is a Venezuelan-born Canadian composer and professor of composition and theory at Memorial University of Newfoundland. Last Dance, nominated for a 2011 Juno Award for “Classical Composition of the Year,” has been called "haunting and beautiful" by pianist Jon Kimura Parker, and was recorded on a 2010 Centrediscs CD (Piano Atlantica) by pianist Barbara Pritchard, as well as on a 2000 CD (Bookends in Time) by Kristina Szutor, who commissioned the work.

His works have been performed in England, Ireland, Israel, Japan, the United States, and across Canada. Guitarist Daniel Bolshoy has played Ross's McGillicuddy's Rant, a set of ten variations on an original theme, over seventy times on three continents, and released a CD of the same name in 2008. McGillicuddy's Rant was also featured on a 2011 CD-release by Canadian guitarist Sylvie Proulx entitled Sirocco. A 2012 CD by pianist Kristina Szutor, Après Scarlatti, includes two recent Ross compositions (Domenico 1° (Scarlet Daybreak) & 2° (Scarlet Nightfall)). A 2012 Centrediscs CD of Canadian works for solo cello by Vernon Regehr includes Ross's Lamentations, which has also been performed by Kaori Yamagami and Thomas Loewenheim.

An avid writer on music, Ross has written over 120 posts in his Music Composition Weblog, named by MatchACollege.com as one of the "Fifty Best Music Theory Blogs," and he also wrote a chapter called "Naked and Unashamed": The Instrumental Practice in: “Weinzweig — Essays on His Life and Music” (WLU Press, 2011). Clark is the founder and Artistic Director of the annual Newfound Music Festival, and was a founding member and later President of Toronto’s Continuum Contemporary Music.

He is married to Dr. Jennifer Porter (professor of Religion and Popular Culture, Memorial University), and has three children.

Visit www.clarkross.ca for more information, or to access scores, recordings, and his composition blog.


Bio (Longer)

Clark Ross is a Venezuelan-born Canadian composer and professor of composition and theory at Memorial University of Newfoundland. Last Dance, nominated for a 2011 Juno Award for “Classical Composition of the Year,” has been called "haunting and beautiful" by pianist Jon Kimura Parker, and was recorded on a 2010 Centrediscs CD by pianist Barbara Pritchard called Piano Atlantica, as well as on a 2000 CD (Bookends in Time) by Kristina Szutor, who commissioned the work.

His works have been performed in England, Ireland, Israel, Japan, the United States, and across Canada by some of Canada's finest musicians, ensembles, and orchestras (click to see list of performers), including the guitarist Daniel Bolshoy, who has performed Ross's McGillicuddy's Rant over seventy times on three continents and released a CD of the same name in 2008. A 2012 CD by pianist Kristina Szutor, Après Scarlatti, includes two recent Ross compositions: Domenico 1° (Scarlet Daybreak) & 2° (Scarlet Nightfall). McGillicuddy's Rant, a set of ten variations on an original theme, was also featured on a 2011 CD-release by Canadian guitarist Sylvie Proulx entitled Sirocco. Cellist Vernon Regehr recorded Ross’s Lamentations for solo cello for his 2012 release on the Centrediscs label. An avid writer on music, Ross has written over 120 posts in his Music Composition Weblog, named by MatchACollege.com as one of the "fifty best music theory blogs," and he also wrote a chapter called "Naked and Unashamed": The Instrumental Practice in: “Weinzweig — Essays on His Life and Music” (WLU Press, 2011).

Ross was Visiting Composer at Wheaton College, Illinois (2007), Composer-in-Residence at Ireland's Waterford New Music Week (2003), and won young composer's awards in national competitions by the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra and the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra.  He has also received over 20 commissions through the CBC, the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council, and the Canada Council.

Clark is the founder and Artistic Director of the Newfound Music Festival, held every February in St. John's, and was a founding member and later President of Continuum, the Toronto-based new-music group. He has served on the national boards of the Canadian League of Composers, the Canadian Music Centre and Canadian New Music Network.

Clark Ross grew up in Maracaibo and Caracas (Venezuela), Lima (Peru), Lennoxville (Quebec), New York City, Fort Lee (New Jersey), and Brussels (Belgium), moving to Toronto when he was seventeen to attend university. He holds BA (humanities), M.Mus. (composition), and Mus.Doc. (composition) degrees from the University of Toronto, as well as an ARCT in Composition from the Royal Conservatory of Music. His principal composition teachers were Samuel Dolin, John Beckwith, Ka Nin Chan, and Gustav Ciamaga. He has taught at the Royal Conservatory of Music, McMaster University, and, since 1992, Memorial University's School of Music, where he teaches composition, sixteenth- and eighteenth-century counterpoint, harmony, analysis, and electronic music, and he started the classical guitar programme.  He was awarded Memorial University's President's Award for Outstanding Research (1999) in recognition of his extensive compositional activities .  

He is married to Dr. Jennifer Porter (professor of Religion and Popular Culture, Memorial University), and has three children (Alexander, (b. 2004), Andrew (b. 2001), and Julia (b. 1990).  His interests outside of family and music include baseball, cats, cooking, ethnic food, reading, writing short stories, and invigorating jumping dances.
 


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