Lauren Schack-Clark
Lauren Schack Clark is Assistant Professor of Piano and Keyboard Activities Supervisor at Arkansas State University. She performs frequently as a soloist and collaborative artist. She was selected to perform at the 2005 TCU-Cliburn Institute Teachers Session in Fort Worth. Recent solo performances and master classes include those at the University of Central Arkansas and Henderson State (AR) University. She has played with principle players of the Boston Symphony, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Scottish National Symphony, Slovenian Radio Symphony, Cincinnati Orchestra, Arkansas Symphony, and Memphis Symphony, and with faculty members of the Eastman School of Music, New England Conservatory, Cincinnati-College Conservatory, Oberlin College, the University of Memphis, and Arkansas State University. She concertized in Paris in 1997 in conjunction with the Institute for Advanced Vocal Study, and again at the 2001 French Piano Institute. With her husband, bassoonist Dr. Dale Clark, she has played at Florida State University, the University of Washington-Seattle, the University of Texas-Austin, the University of Nebraska, the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, and Boston Conservatory. She has appeared with the Marian Anderson String Quartet and the Memphis Chamber Music Society, and was the pianist for Opera Memphis during the 1998-99 season.
Her students have won first prizes in such competitions as the Tennessee Music Teachers Association Auditions and the Beethoven Club Competition. She is President of the Delta Music Teachers Association, chair of the Arkansas State Music Teachers Association Chamber Music and Young Artist Competitions, and has served as Secretary of the Massachusetts Music Teachers Association and the Greater Memphis Music Teachers Association. She is certified in piano and pedagogy through the Music Teachers National Association, and has published in Clavier Magazine. Dr. Clark taught at the University of Memphis and was Director of the Community Music School there. She holds a Doctor of Musical Arts Degree from Boston University, a Master's in Piano Performance and Pedagogy from Northwestern University, a Graduate Diploma from the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, MA , and a Bachelor of Music Degree from the Hartt School of Music.
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