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Andrew James Clark

"Andrew's ability to focus on contemporary society’s need for speed shows he is a success when it comes to flying over the keys and interpreting our civilization’s headlong race into the future." - June 2025

 

The Rhythmic Suite No.1 Review (pdf)

By David K. Philip ​​

Composer - Pianist - Curator 

Bio

Andrew's music has been performed in North America, Europe and Asia. He has been commissioned by Gustavo Gimeno as a NextGen Composer with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and has received a Composition Fellowship with the Hamilton Philharmonic. He has a published work with Counterpoint Library, and his music is included in the ACNMP’s Contemporary Showcase Syllabus. Recent awards include his Symphonic Dance ranking second place in the Etobicoke Philharmonic's 2022 Young Composer Competition, and his Prelude From the Rhythmic Suite No.1 being a finalist in the 2020 New York Contemporary Music Symposium. 

 

His professional development includes a Conducting Apprenticeship with Orchestra Toronto, participation in the Amadeus Choir's Choral Creation Lab and participation in the Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra’s New Generation Composition Program. He was recently selected to attend The Francis Poulenc Academy in August 2025 as a visiting Canadian composer participant. 

 

Andrew is also an accomplished pianist, educator and concert curator. His concert series Classical Context has been featured on ludwig-van.com's “Critic’s Picks”, and routinely showcases early-career professionals from throughout Canada. He has hosted concerts on behalf of Kindred Spirits Orchestra and appeared on The New Classical FM’s Sunday Night with the TSO series. He is active as a harmony and counterpoint teacher across Canada, the US and South Korea. His efforts in sustaining a music therapy program for elderly and homeless musicians earned him a Gordon Cressy Student Leadership Award in 2016, and in 2021 he helped launch the Digital Generations Program which creates digital composition portfolios on behalf of  emerging composers.

 

Andrew is the Music Director of Heron Park Baptist Church, and is married to Canadian composer and multi-disciplinary artist Domenic Clark (formerly Jarlkaganova). He holds multiple music degrees from the University of Toronto's Faculty of Music completed under the supervision of Gary Kulesha.

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