Clinician: BOB LARK

Bob Lark serves as the Chair of Jazz Studies at DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois, where he teaches jazz trumpet, courses in jazz pedagogy and jazz style, and directs the university Jazz Ensemble. Under his direction, the DePaul Jazz Ensemble has produced several Outstanding Performance Awards from Downbeat magazine, and has recorded albums with legendary jazz artists Clark Terry, Louie Bellson, Bob Brookmeyer, Tom Harrell, Frank Wess, Jim McNeely, Bobby Shew, and Chicago Symphony Orchestra members John Bruce Yeh and Charles Vernon for reference recordings. He is an active clinician, and guest conductor, and his trumpet playing and writing are featured on the compact disc recordings Until You (2003) and First Steps (1997) on the Hallway Records label. In addition, Bob is the past-president of the Illinois Unit of the International Association of Jazz Educators, has chaired the International Trumpet Guild jazz improvisation competition, serves as the host for the 1999 Carmine Caruso International Trumpet Solo Competition, and throughout the 1990's directed the Midwest Grammy High School Jazz Band. He holds a Doctorate of Musical Arts in performance from the University of North Texas, having earlier earned a Master of Music Education degree from the school, and a Bachelor of Music Education degree from The Ohio State University.