Artistic Director

Recently appointed Artistic Director of The Providence Singers, conductor Andrew Clark also serves as the Music Director of the Worcester Chorus, founding Music Director of the Junior Providence Singers and Director of Choral Activities at Tufts University.

As a finalist for the Robert Shaw conducting fellowship, Clark was recognized by Chorus America as one of our country’s most promising young conductors. Performances in 2005-2006 include his Carnegie Hall conducting debut and appearance on NBC’s Today Show with the Junior Providence Singers, his Lincoln Center debut preparing The Providence Singers for the world premiere of Dave Brubeck’s The Commandments and other performances throughout New England.

He has collaborated with prestigious organizations including the Rhode Island Philharmonic, New Haven Symphony Orchestra, Boston Pops, Pittsburgh Symphony, Opera Boston, the Dave Brubeck Quartet, and the Newport Jazz Festival among others.

A supporter and advocate for music education, Clark serves as a distinguished faculty member of the “Notes from the Heart” music camp in Pittsburgh, a summer music program for children with disabilities and chronic illness, supported by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and the Woodlands Foundation. As director of choral activities at the Music School of the Rhode Island Philharmonic, he oversees an extensive and celebrated choral education program.

Clark received degrees from Wake Forest and Carnegie Mellon Universities, having studied with Grammy-award winning conductor Robert Page, as well as Jameson Marvin, Dale Warland, Vance George, David Effron, Gunther Schuller, William Weinert and others. He previously served on the conducting staff of Harvard and Clark Universities and as assistant conductor of the Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh and the Boston Pops Holiday Chorus.

After making his first appearance with the Worcester Chorus last December, the Worcester Telegram wrote: “Conductor Andrew Clark drew the Worcester Chorus deep into a reviewer’s thicket of celebratory nouns: There was passion, conviction, adrenalin, coherence, diction, in his lickety-split rendition of Handel’s Messiah.” His choirs have been hailed as ‘first rate’ by the Boston Globe and “cohesive and exciting” (Opera News).