Reber Clark
Biography
Reber Clark (b. 1955, Des Moines, Iowa) is an American composer and trumpeter.
Clark attained a B.A. degree in Music Education under the direction of Gene Witherspoon, and studied composition under James Perry while attending Arkansas Tech University in Russellville, Arkansas. He taught in the public schools for several years before leaving that profession to pursue a career as freelance composer, arranger, and performer.
Clark has fulfilled numerous commissions for college, high school, and middle school bands. He has been a speaker at the national ASBDA convention speaking on procedures for commissioning a new work. He has arranged hundreds of talent charts and production numbers for state scholarship pageants, "gridiron," and other variety shows.
His performance experience includes many years on trumpet as a studio musician. He has performed in bands for internationally known performers such as Bob Hope, Mitzi Gaynor, the Four Tops, The Temptations, and others, including a road tour as lead trumpet for the New Sam and Dave Revue.
Works for Winds
- Alone the Sun Rises (2002)
- Aresti Dance
- Arts in the Park
- Band Trip (2015)
- Beneath Night’s Shadow (2011)
- Blackstone River Echoes
- Caccia (2004)
- The Circle (2000)
- A Dream of Mountains (2000)
- Dunharrow Overture
- Emerald Diamond, The
- Encryption
- Escape from Chronopolis (2002)
- Flowers of the Forest (2006)
- Fortress of the Rose (2008)
- Four Christmas Miniatures
- Garden Citadel, The
- Hidden Falls of the Tsangpo
- Hymn of St. James (2000)
- In the Brain of the Moon
- Into the Great Dark Ocean
- Lamentation and Dance
- Landscapes of the Soul
- Mixed Barley (2008)
- Mt Hope Union
- Mystick Knights of the Turkish Crescent
- Night is a Frontier
- Novus Ordo Seclorum
- Over the Sparkling Sea (2019)
- One Hundred Years of Light (2011)
- Place of Silent Storms, A
- Risk of Freedom, The (2005)
- River of Four Reflections(2001)
- Siciliana
- Song of the Night Rainbow
- Summerfield (2006)
- Sunset at Quantico (2009)
- Troll Witch Dances
- Windy City (2005)
Resources
- "Clark, Reber (B. 1955)." C. Alan Publications. Web Accessed 19 August 2017
- Holtan, Timothy J. "Escape from Chronopolis." In Teaching Music through Performance in Band. Volume 6, edit. & comp. by Richard Miles, 349-354. Chicago: GIA Publications, 2007.
- Reber Clark website Accessed 19 August 2017