RICHARD CLARK - Private Instruction, Percussion
 
       
       
      Playing in bands professionally and in schools since he was 13, in his high school years, he was chosen for All State Band at UNC, Greely and attended the Oral Roberts University Jazz and Music Camps in Tulsa, OK. After graduating from Canon City High School, he attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, and Dick Grove Music Workshops in L.A. He has been a member of the National Association of Rudimental Drummers since 1977. While in L.A., he studied under Nick Ceroli (Tijuana Brass) and toured the area with the L.A. Country-Rock band Red Eye Express. He performs regularly with many area groups, including Pueblo Symphony (which he has served as timpanist and principal percussionist for), Dwight Shaw Septet & Big Band, Swing Connection, Springs Band, Broadmoor Tavern Orchestra, Dick Cunico's Little Big Band, Pecos River Country Band, Springs City Jazz Band, State Fair Rodeo Orchestra and has produced (and played on) a CD by Lynette Moffitt-Mondy. Clark has been the principle drummer/percussionist for the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center Rep musicals for the past 4 years, in such award-winning productions as West Side Story, Man of La Mancha, Chicago, Damn Yankees, Sweet Charity, Hot Mikado, and Cabaret. He also drummed for TheaterWork's production of Cole Porter's Nymph Errant at UCCS. He has served as percussion clinician at Lewis Palmer Middle School as well as Canon City High School's drumline. He is organist for the Church of Christ, Scientist, and plays keyboards and/or drums for Anshey Hashem and First Presbyterian Church, all in Canon City. He loves composing and his tunes are performed regularly in many groups he frequently plays in, including John Turner Trio, Carlos Crull & Wasabi, Just in Time and the fusion band 21/3. He resides in Canon City with his wife and two sons.  
       
 

 
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