Michael Clark — Piano Recital

29 May 2025, 20:00
Bilkent Concert Hall
Free Admission | Open to the Public

Bilkent University welcomes guest artist Michael Clark, pianist and faculty member at Baylor University, for a recital and a series of masterclasses. The recital, featuring works by Beethoven, Schubert, and Florence Price, will take place at Bilkent Concert Hall and is open to the public with free admission.

Program:

• Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Sonata No. 9 in E major, Op. 14, No. 1
  I. Allegro
  II. Allegretto
  III. Rondo: Allegro comodo

• Franz Schubert – Piano Sonata in A Major, D. 664
  I. Allegro moderato
  II. Andante
  III. Allegro

• Florence Price – Piano Sonata in E Minor (1932)
  I. Andante – Allegro
  II. Andante
  III. Allegro

About the Artist:

Michael Clark is a pianist, teacher, and scholar noted for his “natural, clear, and nuanced”

performances (Piano Magazine). An advocate for the music of Florence Price, he has presented

numerous lecture recitals on her piano music. His debut album Waltzes and Character Pieces of

Florence Price, released by Navona Records, featured seven world-premiere recordings and

“embodied the musical and pianistic richness of Price’s music” (Sonograma Magazine). He

edited Florence Price: Rediscovered Gems for Piano Solo, a collection of previously

unpublished intermediate works released by Hal Leonard in January 2025.

Devoted to practical solutions in pedagogy, Clark researches traditions of piano fingering and is

the founder of Piano Tricks, an online database of fingerings and redistributions for over 1000

passages from the piano repertoire. He has presented at the National Conference on Keyboard

Pedagogy, the Music Teachers National Association Conference, and MTNA’s Group Piano and

Piano Pedagogy (GP3) Forum. His pedagogical writing has appeared in Piano Magazine and

MTNA e-Journal, and he is a member of American Music Teacher’s Editorial Committee.

Clark currently serves as Assistant Professor of Piano and Coordinator of Secondary Piano at

Baylor University. He previously taught in collegiate, studio, and community outreach settings in

the Houston area. Clark earned a DMA in Piano Performance with the Certificate in Teaching

and Learning from Rice University, MM in Piano Performance and Pedagogy from the

University of Houston, and BM in Piano Performance from Ithaca College. His primary teachers

include Robert Roux, Nancy Weems, Jennifer Hayghe, and Melinda Smashey Jones. Clark

studied pedagogy with Courtney Crappell and John Weems and has been a Nationally Certified

Teacher of Music (NCTM) since 2017.