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Clark Suprynowicz
B.A., Hampshire College (Music)
Clark Suprynowicz spent many years in the trenches as a Jazz musician before decamping to compose full-time. His work as a bassist includes performances and recordings with John Zorn, Bill Frisell, Art Lande, Max Roach, and Tom Waits. Clark has written theme music and incidental music for National Public Radio, a body of songs and chamber music, as well as jazz works, but his work as a composer for the last two decades has focused on the stage. Clark was a founding member of the New Music Theatre Project at Z Space Studios in San Francisco. Through his work as a director at the New Music Theater Project, Clark mentored the creation of new work in the singing theater by more than two hundred Bay Area performers, composers, librettists, and directors. Clark's opera Ariadne, with librettist Ken Prestininzi, was developed at Z Space, and premiered in 1998 at the Diego Rivera Theater in San Francisco. The opera Caliban Dreams, an adaptation of Shakespeare's The Tempest, with librettist Amanda Moody, was commissioned by the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, and premiered in May of 2003 at the Magic Theater in San Francisco. Clark's most recent opera, Chrysalis, with librettist John O'Keefe, was commissioned by Berkeley Opera, and premiered as part of their 2006 season.
Clark Suprynowicz earned his B.A. in music from Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, and received additional training in composition from Elinor Armer, Ken Durling, Joel Lindheimer, and David Conte.