Paul Clark is a composer based in London.

Early life and education

Clark was born in West Kirby in 1968. He studied classical guitar with Lee Sollory.

Career

Clark co-founded

Clod Ensemble Clod Ensemble is a multi-award winning performance company and registered charity based in London, UK. Founded in 1995 by director Suzy Willson and composer Paul Clark, the company creates performances, workshops and other events in the UK and in ...

with director Suzy Willson in London in 1995. He has co-created all the company’s productions to date and written critically acclaimed scores for each - ranging from totally acoustic works, to multi speaker installations. With

, recent works include dance theatre piece ''On The High Road'' (Southbank Centre’s

Queen Elizabeth Hall The Queen Elizabeth Hall (QEH) is a music venue on the South Bank in London, England, that hosts classical, jazz, and avant-garde music, talks and dance performances. It was opened in 1967, with a concert conducted by Benjamin Britten. The ...

, 2019); ''Silver Swan'' ( Tate Modern Turbine Hall, 2011), an acapella piece for seven classical singers; ''An Anatomie in Four Quarters'' (Sadler’s Wells,

Wales Millennium Centre Wales Millennium Centre ( cy, Canolfan Mileniwm Cymru) is an arts centre located in the Cardiff Bay area of Cardiff, Wales. The site covers a total area of . Phase 1 of the building was opened during the weekend of the 26–28 November 2004 an ...

in Cardiff and The Lowry, Salford 2012-2016) which features electronics, live orchestral music and a rock band; and ''It’s a Small House and We’ve Lived in It Always'', a blues-inspired collaboration with

Split Britches Split Britches is an American performance troupe, which has been producing work internationally since 1980. Academic Sue Ellen Case says "their work has defined the issues and terms of academic writing on lesbian theater, butch-femme role playing, ...

. Clark also composed music for Clod Ensemble's ''Under Glass'' (Sadler’s Wells, London 2009-2017), a surround-sound installation and winner of the 2009 Total Theatre Award for Physical and Visual Theatre. He has written music for and with artists including

Manchester Camerata The Manchester Camerata is a British chamber orchestra based in Manchester, England. A sub-group from the orchestra, the Manchester Camerata Ensemble, specialises in chamber music performances. The orchestra's primary concert venue is The Bridg ...

, Osterreichisches Ensemble fur Neue Musik,

Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh (born 28 August 1979) is a fiddler, born in Dublin, Ireland, who attended Trinity College Dublin, becoming a Scholar in Theoretical Physics (1999) and earning a First Class BA degree (as the top student of his class) in 20 ...

, Welsh National Opera, Opera North, Sinfonia Cymru, Annie Whitehead, Renee Fleming,

Danger Mouse Danger Mouse may refer (or appear in) to: * ''Danger Mouse'' (1981 TV series), a 1981 British animated television series * ''Danger Mouse'' (2015 TV series), a 2015 reboot of the British animated television series * Danger Mouse (musician) (born ...

, Mark E Smith and Melanie Pappenheim. Clark has written dozens of scores for theatre in the UK and internationally including for director Katie Mitchell for whom he has written over twenty scores including ''Cleansed'' ( National Theatre, London) and ''Wunschkonzert'' ( Schauspiel Koln), and Irish company Gare St Lazare with whom he created ''Here All Night'' using texts by

Samuel Beckett Samuel Barclay Beckett (; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish novelist, dramatist, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator. His literary and theatrical work features bleak, impersonal and tragicomic expe ...

(

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (also simply known as Lincoln Center) is a complex of buildings in the Lincoln Square neighborhood on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. It has thirty indoor and outdoor facilities and is host to 5 millio ...

in New York, Brighton Festival and touring 2013-18). He wrote the score for the National Theatre’s production of ''The Cat In The Hat'' which is now licensed by Music Theatre International and has toured across the U.S.. In Spring 2019, Clark composed the score for ''Norma Jeane Baker of Troy'' featuring Renee Fleming and Ben Wishaw, as part the inaugural season at The Shed, New York. In 1998 Clark was awarded a fellowship from The Arts Foundation for opera composition. In TV & Film, Clark composed music for Simon Amstell’s television show

Grandma’s House ''Grandma's House'' is a sitcom television series broadcast on BBC Two. Written by Simon Amstell and long-term collaborator Dan Swimer, the series stars Simon Amstell playing a version of himself: an ex-television presenter searching for meaning i ...

which aired on BBC Two in 2010. He has collaborated with Arnaud Desplechin, John Michael McDonagh, Emily Young and Christine Gernon, and wrote the music for the David Sedaris audiobook ''Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk''. Other works include ''The Weather Man'' ( Opera North), ''Liebeslied/My Suicides'' (ICA/Genesis Foundation), and many multimedia events including the 500th anniversary of

Hampton Court Palace Hampton Court Palace is a Grade I listed royal palace in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, southwest and upstream of central London on the River Thames. The building of the palace began in 1514 for Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, the chie ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Clark, Paul British composers 1968 births Living people