Music Faculty

At Clark, Professor Manson directs and manages the Music Performance concentration for all music majors and minors, specifically guiding the private lesson instruction program, performance workshops, departmental juries and capstone performance projects and recitals. Professor Manson leads the Clark University Concert […]

'Brilliant energetic rhythmic figures…imaginative sonorities and harmonies that always move, always inflect'. -- American Academy of Arts and Letters. Composer and pianist John Aylward grew up in the Sonoran Desert, on the border of Arizona and Mexico, a child of an […]

Yelena Beriyeva, PianoHailed as “the paragon of the concert pianist” by LA Examiner and “a standout performer” by The Boston Musical Intelligencer, Georgian-born American pianist Yelena Beriyeva continues to hold esteem as one of the finest artists of her generation. Ms. […]

Professor Benjamin M. Korstvedt is an active researcher and scholar, a committed and enthusiastic teacher, a frequent speaker at national and international conferences, and a productive author and editor. He graduated summa cum laude from Clark University in 1987 with […]

Matt Malsky has been at Clark University full time since 1994. He has served as Associate Provost and Dean of the College, and chair of the Department of Visual & Performing Arts, director of the Music Program as well as […]