Paul Clark (composer)

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.

[1] With Clod Ensemble, recent works include dance theatre piece On The High Road (Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall, 2019);[2][3] Silver Swan (Tate Modern Turbine Hall, 2011),[4] an acapella piece for seven classical singers; An Anatomie in Four Quarters[5] (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 has written dozens of scores for theatre in the UK and internationally including for director Katie Mitchell for whom he has written over twenty scores including Cleansed (National Theatre, London)[11] and Wunschkonzert (Schauspiel Koln),[12] and Irish company Gare St Lazare with whom he created Here All Night using texts by Samuel Beckett (Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York, Brighton Festival and touring 2013-18).

In Spring 2019, Clark composed the score for Norma Jeane Baker of Troy[16] featuring Renee Fleming and Ben Wishaw, as part the inaugural season at The Shed,[17] New York.

[19] He has collaborated with Arnaud Desplechin, John Michael McDonagh, Emily Young and Christine Gernon, and wrote the music for the David Sedaris audiobook Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk.