Hilary Clark – Cello

Hilary Clark completed coursework for her Doctorate of Musical Arts in Cello Performance in June 2009 at the University of California at Santa Barbara. During this program she was the recipient of the Young Artist String Quartet Fellowship, and was a winner of the University Concerto Competition twice, performing the first movements of the Haydn Cello Concerto in D major and Shostakovich Cello Concerto no. 1. She took part in the annual UCSB Primavera Festival for contemporary music as a soloist for three consecutive years, performing the Solo Sonatas by George Crumb and György Ligeti, and the highly challenging “Kottos” by Iannis Xenakis.

Ms. Clark has been a member of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, South Bend Symphony, Illinois Philharmonic, and was Principal Cello with the Elmhurst Symphony where she was featured as a soloist in 2006, performing Tchaikovsky’s Pezzo Capriccioso. She has had the privilege to play in master classes for Lynn Harrell, Tim Eddy, David Finckel, Fred Sherry, Rohan de Saram, the Emerson Quartet, the Tokyo Quartet, the Juilliard Quartet, and others. She received her Master’s degree in Cello performance from Western Michigan University.