“The Wheeling Symphony Orchestra is welcoming a new assistant conductor, Antoine T. Clark,” reads an unsigned report in Thursday’s (9/23) Wheeling News-Register (WV). “A native Virginian and resident of Worthington, Ohio, Clark’s first concert assignment will be the WSO’s Nov. 20 SoundBites concert to be held at the Scottish Rite Cathedral in downtown Wheeling…. Clark was the 2020-2021 assistant conductor of the Chicago Sinfonietta, cover conductor with the 2021 Lancaster Festival Orchestra, and is the founding artistic and music director of the McConnell Arts Center Chamber Orchestra [in Worthington, Ohio]. He also is currently the conductor and music director of the Northern Ohio Youth Orchestra–Philharmonia Orchestra and music director of the Ohio Wesleyan University Chamber Orchestra. Clark holds a Master of Music degree in orchestral conducting and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in clarinet performance from The Ohio State University. He also holds a Master of Music degree in clarinet performance from the University of Cincinnati-College Conservatory of Music and a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Education from Virginia Commonwealth University. John Devlin, the symphony’s music director, said, … ‘We are so excited to welcome him as the newest member of the WSO team.”
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