
Nigel Clarke
Nigel Clarke studied composition at the Royal Academy of Music with Paul Patterson, winning the Josiah Parker Prize (adjudicated by Sir Michael Tippett) and the Academy’s highest distinction, the Queen’s Commendation for Excellence. He gained his Doctor of Musical Arts from University of Salford. Nigel has previously held positions as Young Composer in Residence at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, Composition and Contemporary Music Tutor at the Royal Academy of Music, London, Head of Composition at the London College of Music and Media, visiting tutor at the Royal Northern College of Music, Associate Composer to the Black Dyke Band, Associate Composer to the Band of HM Grenadier Guards and Associate Composer to the Royal Military School of Music and Associate Composer to Brass Band Buizingen (in Belgium). In 1997 Nigel joined the United States International Visitor Leadership Program sponsored by the US Information Agency. He is currently Composer to Bands Middle Tennessee State University Bands, Composer-in-Residence to the Marinierskapel der Koninklijke Marine (Marine Band of the Royal Netherlands Navy and International Composer in Association to the world famous Grimethorpe Collery Band in the UK.
Projects
Update
- The bells of St Mary’s pealed once again for Edith Cavell
- A brilliant night
- Inspiration=Dover the event
- INSPIRATION = DOVER: preparing for the exhibition
- Dogger, Fisher, German Bight: recording session
- Congratulations to Nigel Clarke
- War & Peace: the film
- War and Peace – An Overview and Appreciation
- Salon Evening at the National Trust White Cliffs Visitor Centre
- Transit: Pulp & Rags: The Grand Finale
- War & Peace: An overview by Nigel Clarke, Peter Sheppard Skӕrved and Malene Skӕrved
- Transit: Pulp & Rags: an evening of contemporary classical music, poetry and film at Dover Town Hall
- WAR & PEACE SYMPOSIUM: 13 October 2012