Dave Clark

Dave Clark is the Director of Jazz Studies at Bellarmine University. His duties include teaching saxophone, jazz harmony, jazz history, jazz improvisation, jazz combos and directing Bellarmine's Nouveau Gumbo & Funk ensembles. Dave earned a BM in music education and a MM in jazz performance from the University of Louisville and is currently a doctoral student at Bellarmine’s Annsley-Frazier Thornton School of Education researching music as a conduit for teaching social justice issues. As a student at U of L, Dave won the school’s Concerto Competition where he performed the Glazounov Saxophone Concerto and received a Certificate of Merit for Outstanding Performance at the Notre Dame Jazz Festival. Dave has performed internationally at the Umbria Jazz Festival in Perugia, Italy, and the Montreaux Jazz Festival in Montreaux, Switzerland. He has also performed multiple times at the Jazz Educators Network Conference.