Walter Clark

Professor

Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Email: walter.clark@ucr.edu
Phone: (951) 827-2114
Office: ARTS 145

Walter Aaron Clark received his doctorate in musicology from UCLA (1992), where he worked with Robert Stevenson. He also holds performance degrees in classical guitar from the North Carolina School of the Arts (B.M.) and the University of California, San Diego (M.A.), where he was a student of Pepe Romero. Clark studied early music with lutenist Jürgen Hübscher and concertized in Germany for two years on a Fulbright grant (1984-86). Before coming to UCR, he was on the faculty at the University of Kansas for ten years, having previously taught various courses at Scripps and Pomona Colleges, California State University, Long Beach, and UCLA.

Prof. Clark's specialty is the music of Spain and Latin America, and he is the founder/director of the Center for Iberian and Latin American Music at UCR. His research has appeared in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2nd ed.), Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (2nd ed.), The Musical Quarterly, Revista de Musicología, Journal of the Lute Society of America, and Inter-American Music Review. He is the author of Isaac Albéniz: A Guide to Research (Garland, 1998) and Isaac Albéniz: Portrait of a Romantic (Oxford, 1999), now available in paperback (Oxford, 2002), Spanish translation (Turner, 2002), and in digitalized form on the Internet (Questia). He is the editor of From Tejano to Tango: Latin American Popular Music (Routledge, 2002). He has published research on topics as diverse as the lute and vihuela intabulations of Josquin’s Mille Regretz, Isaac Albéniz’s opera Merlin, the Hollywood musicals of Carmen Miranda, the choral, stage, and piano works of Enrique Granados, and the guitar studies of Fernando Sor. He was the 1992 recipient of the Ralph Vaughan Williams Research Fellowship in England, and his work on the opera Riders to the Sea recently appeared in Vaughan Williams Essays, edited by Byron Adams and Robin Wells (Ashgate, 2003). His latest book is Enrique Granados: Poet of the Piano ( Oxford, 2006), recipient of the 2006 Robert M. Stevenson Award in Iberian musicology from the American Musicological Society. He has published reviews in American Music, the Journal of Musicological Research, Nineteenth-Century Music Review, and MLA Notes, and served as a contributing editor to the Handbook of Latin American Studies. In addition, he writes liner notes for Hyperion, Naxos, DGG, BIS, and Decca. He has read papers at numerous conferences throughout the U.S. and Europe.

Prof. Clark is currently co-authoring a book with William Krause entitled Federico Moreno Torroba and the “Eternal Tradition” in Spanish Music (Oxford University Press). He is also editing and contributing to The Musics of Latin America: A Heritage of Diversity, an introductory textbook from W. W. Norton (due out in spring 2009). Contributors to this volume include Craig Russell (colonial period), Deborah Schwartz-Kates (Argentina/River Plate region), Robin Moore (Cuba/Caribbean), Cristina Magaldi (Brazil), Jonathan Ritter (Peru/Andes), John Koegel (Mexico), and T.M. Scruggs (Central America/Northern South America). He is also the editor of a new series from Oxford, Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music.

Prof. Clark teaches a wide variety of courses, including opera history, Latin American art music, folk and popular music of Latin America, 20th-century Spanish and Latin American music, representations of Spain in music and dance (1700-present), and world music. At the University of Kansas, he was the recipient of a William T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence in 2000 and an Excellence in Teaching Award (for graduate teaching) from the Center for Teaching Excellence in 2001.
As a guitarist, he has devoted many years to the study of flamenco, in both the U.S. (with René Heredia) and Spain (with Ricardo Modrego), and he performed frequently as guitar accompanist and soloist with the flamenco dance troupe Olé in Kansas City. He is currently developing an educational video on flamenco in collaboration with Eugene Enrico and his Early Music Television production company at the University of Oklahoma. Filming took place in Sevilla in the summer of 2004, and the DVD, currently in post-production, is due out in 2007.

In addition to his teaching responsibilities, Prof. Clark is currently chair of the music department at UCR.

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