Paul Clark (composer)

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 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 Clod Ensemble, recent works include dance theatre piece On The High Road (Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall, 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 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. 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, Osterreic