Adam Clark of the Hope College music faculty will present a piano recital on Friday,
Oct. 14, at 7:30 p.m. in Dimnent Memorial Chapel.
The public is invited. Admission is free.
Clark will be performing a wide range of repertoire that includes Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart's early "Piano Sonata in F Major, K. 280"; Ludwig van Beethoven's "32 Variations
in C Minor," and Morton Gould's 1991 "Ghost Waltzes," written as the commissioned
work for the 1993 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. The centerpiece of
the recital is Franz Liszt's "Piano Sonata in B Minor," programmed in recognition
of the 200th anniversary of the composer's birth.
An active soloist, chamber musician, and concerto soloist, Clark has performed to
great acclaim throughout the United States, as well as in Belgium, Italy and South
Korea. Of his playing, "New York Concert Review Magazine" has written, "Clark brought
out much beauty in Chopin's soulfully embroidered melodies. He played with thoughtful
expressiveness" and "achieved an excellent blend [with the orchestra]."
Clark's performances have been broadcast on WMUK in Michigan as well as MBC National
Television in Korea. A first-prize winner of the American Protégé International Piano
Competition, he has played in notable venues such as Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie
Hall and has appeared with orchestras including the San Luis Obispo Symphony, Holland
Symphony and Manhattan Chamber Orchestra.
Also an avid chamber musician, Clark has performed with members of the Cincinnati
Symphony Orchestra, Lexington Philharmonic, Dayton Philharmonic and Seoul National
Orchestra, as well as members of the Grand Rapids Symphony, Kalamazoo Symphony and
West Michigan Symphony. In West Michigan he has been featured on the Hope College
"Sundays at 2" recital series, the "Free at 3" recital series, the Grand Rapids Art
Museum (GRAM) recital series, and the Chamber Music Festival of Saugatuck summer concerts.
Clark is an assistant professor of music in piano at Hope, where he teaches courses
in applied piano, keyboard skills, piano pedagogy and accompanying. He has lectured
extensively on diverse topics ranging from technical and musical development to twentieth-century
pedagogical literature, and he is a frequent guest and presenter at local, state and
national music conferences. This past summer he presented a lecture on Liszt's "Piano
Sonata in B Minor" at the College Music Society's International Summer Conference
in Seoul, South Korea.
In addition to his teaching duties, Clark is director of the Hope College Young Artists
Piano Competition, coordinator of the college's "Sundays at 2" series, and collegiate
chapter chair for the Michigan Music Teachers Association.
Clark earned his Doctor of Musical Arts degree in piano performance at the University
of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. His bachelor's and master's degrees were
completed at the University of California at Santa Barbara and the University of Texas
at Austin. His former teachers include Dr. Charles Asche, Nancy Garrett, and Eugene
and Elizabeth Pridonoff.
Dimnent Memorial Chapel is located at 277 College Ave., on College Avenue at 12th
Street.