Introduction to Disability Studies

Andrew Clark is director of choral activities and senior lecturer on music at Harvard University. He serves as the music director and conductor of the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, the Harvard Glee Club, the Radcliffe Choral Society, and the Harvard Summer Chorus, and teaches courses in conducting, choral literature, and music and disability studies in the Department of Music. Clark's work with the Harvard Choral Program empowers individuals and communities through active engagement with choral music: fostering compassion, community-building, and joy. As an artist-educator devoted to advancing equity, justice, and access to the arts, Clark has developed community partnerships with youth music education programs, correctional institutions, health care facilities, overnight shelters, senior-care communities, and other service organizations operating beyond the normalized conventions of arts practice. Clark continues his work as a founding faculty member of the Notes from the Heart music program near Pittsburgh, a summer camp for children and young adults experiencing disabilities and chronic illness. He earned degrees from Wake Forest, Carnegie Mellon, and Boston University, studying with Ann Howard Jones, David Hoose, and the late Robert Page.