Dr. Ted Clark serves on the trumpet faculty at The Ohio State University, The College of Wooster, and Malone University, and performs regularly with the Firelands and Ashland Symphony Orchestras. A native of Canada, Dr. Clark began his musical career in Toronto, where he was a member of the Toronto Brass Quintet and the Charlottetown Festival Orchestra. He has performed with a wide range of ensembles, including the National Ballet of Canada Orchestra, Hannaford Street Silver Band, Symphony Nova Scotia, Hamilton Philharmonic, and the Kitchener-Waterloo, Thunder Bay, Windsor, and Niagara Symphony Orchestras.

Since relocating to Ohio in 2016, Dr. Clark has performed and recorded extensively with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. He has also appeared with the Cleveland Pops Orchestra, Erie Philharmonic, Chautauqua, Akron, Canton, and Columbus Symphonies, as well as with ProMusica and CityMusic Cleveland Chamber Orchestras. His versatility as a performer has led to collaborations with artists such as The Who, Weird Al Yankovic, Hanson, Il Divo, and Roger Hodgson of Supertramp.

Dr. Clark is the author of 20 Interesting Etudes for the Developing Trumpet Player, an intermediate-level method book available through qPress and at his website: www.tedclarktrumpet.com.

He holds performance degrees from the University of Toronto, Illinois State University, and The Ohio State University, and is an alumnus of both the National Academy Orchestra of Canada and l’Orchestre de la Francophonie Canadienne..