{"97451":{"#nid":"97451","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Selects New Director for Music Department","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFrank L. Clark, the former chair of the Department of Music at the University of South Alabama in Mobile, has been appointed professor and director of the Music Department at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He began Aug. 1.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We\u0027re excited about Dr. Clark\u0027s appointment, and we look forward to his leadership,\u0022 said Thomas Galloway, dean of Georgia Tech\u0027s College of Architecture, home of the Institute\u0027s Music Department. \u0022His passion for music and technology should be an invaluable strength for our students, many of whom share the same such passion.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EClark comes to Georgia Tech from the University of South Alabama, where he joined the faculty in 1992. He served as acting chair of USA\u0027s Department of Music between 1996 and 1999, when he was appointed full chair. While in Mobile, Clark coordinated USA\u0027s music theory courses and helped design, install, develop and supervise a multimedia Musical Instrument Digital Interface lab and classroom.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EPreviously, Clark was a department coordinator at Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston, Idaho, between 1983 and 1986. He also was an assistant professor at Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon, from 1986 to 1990. Between 1990 and 1992, Clark was an assistant professor at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, where he taught music theory, conducted a jazz band and helped design and develop the university\u0027s Arts Resources Technology\/Computer Assisted Training Laboratory. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EClark is a member of the Technology Institute for Music Educators\u0027 National Advisory Board and is among the presenters in the College Music Society\u0027s Speakers Bureau. He frequently addresses the topics of multimedia applications, the growth of music technology and the use of such technology in the music studio.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn 1980, Clark earned a bachelor\u0027s degree in music education from the University of the Pacific Conservatory of Music in Stockton, Calif. The next year, he earned a master\u0027s degree in french horn performance at Stanford University. He earned his Ph.D. in music theory from the University of Arizona in 1990.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Frank L. Clark, the former chair of the Department of Music at the University of South Alabama in Mobile, has been appointed professor and director of the Music Department at the Georgia Institute of Technology.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2002-10-29 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:15","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2002-09-26T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2002-09-26T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"97461":{"id":"97461","type":"image","title":"Frank Clark","body":null,"created":"1449178133","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:28:53","changed":"1475894709","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:09"}},"media_ids":["97461"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.coa.gatech.edu\/music\/about_us\/director.htm","title":"Frank Clark Bio"},{"url":"http:\/\/nique.net\/issues\/fall2002\/2002-10-25\/6.html","title":"Technique Profile of Frank Clark"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.coa.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech College of Architecture"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.coa.gatech.edu\/music\/","title":"Georgia Tech Music Department"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Media Relations\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELaura Diamond\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elaura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-6016\u003Cbr \/\u003EJason Maderer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:maderer@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emaderer@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-660-2926\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["matthew.nagel@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}