Jim Clarke

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Jim Clarke

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Jim Clarke (b. 1971, Plainfield NJ), began his musical career playing guitar, and dabbled in a variety of instruments before settling down with the saxophone, on which he still performs.As a composer, he reached the classical music world from rock beginnings, with jazz as the intermediary.All these roots are still clearly audible in his music, especially in a highly individual use of rhythm, in which commonplace classical, pop, and jazz figures are jumbled together in extremely slippery combinations.Most recently, he has taken an interest in the modern possibilities of ancient European instruments.

Barely out of his teens in 1991 Clarke received a BMI Student Composer Award for his Prelude for Winds, and he has continued to garner accolades in the succeeding years.He studied with Roger Briggs at Western Washington University, then pursued graduate studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London under Steve Martland, receiving his MA in 1997.Via a special fellowship, created for him, he then taught as a regular member of the Academic Studies staff.

Jim Clarke
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Jim Clarke: orch, string quartet, guitar, bassoon, oboe, clarinet, alto sax, flute, viola, harpsichord, piano
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Jim Clarke This page has MIDI file excerptsAbout Jim Clarke
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A three movement concerto for orchestra, colorful and lean--and a real white-water raft ride for both orchestra and audience, thanks to some extraordinarily rapid tempi and Clarke's trademark slippery rhythms.
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Clarke declares this "a reflective but difficult work, with a great deal of expressive room for the performer."Mosaic Fragment (1997).Oboe and guitar: 10 1/2'. $20.00. Continuing his series of works for woodwind and guitar (see Fictions and Vespertine Paths) Clarke here combines the guitar with the oboe.
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Clarke was only 23 when he wrote this amazing piece, a more than worthy companion to the Brahms sonatas.
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Much easier to play than most of Clarke's music--and highly rewarding as well.Zwack! (1996).Flute solo: 6'. $9.00.
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Clarke says of them: "Written while I was wandering through Italy, these are harmonically stark tributes toGershwin's set of Preludes, which tend to haunt me.They still haven't been exorcised." Listen to a MIDI of 3.Transportation for Life.

About Jim Clarke Jim Clarke (b. 1971, Plainfield NJ) has been hailed as "one of the most phenomenally gifted composers" of his generation.He reached the classical music world from rock beginnings, with jazz as the intermediary, and these roots are still clearly audible in his music, especially in a highly individual use of rhythm, in which commonplace classical, pop, and jazz figures are jumbled together in extremely slippery combinations.Barely out of his teens in 1991 Clarke received a BMI Student Composer Award for his Prelude for Winds, and he has continued to garner accolades in the succeeding years.He studied with Roger Briggs at Western Washington University, then pursued graduate studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London under Steve Martland, receiving his MA in 1997.Via a special fellowship, created for him, he then taught as a regular member of the Academic Studies staff.The Academy also commissioned him to write an orchestral work (Portal) for the school's 175th anniversary celebrations, and showcased his horizon for solo piano on a world tour by the Academy's performers.In 1998 he moved to The Hague for further study with Louis Andriessen at the Koninklijk Conservatorium.Continental performers and ensembles have not been slow to appreciate his work; he has received a gratifying stream of performances and commissions there.He currently resides in Germany.