Willie Clark

Appointed Fall 2021

Willie Clark is lecturer of tuba and euphonium at the University of Maryland School of Music where he teaches applied tuba and euphonium lessons, coaches brass chamber groups and serves as the director of the UMD Brass Ensemble. Clark is also a retired member of the United States Air Force “Ceremonial Brass” in Washington, D.C., and was a founding member of the Barclay Brass and professional Disney tuba quartet, “The Tubafours.”

As a performer, Clark has toured the United States, South America, Australia, China, Japan and eighteen countries in Europe. During these travels, he performed with the National Symphony Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, China National Symphony, the Empire Brass for the Campos do Jordao Winter Music Festival and USA Tour, American Wind Symphony Orchestra, Sam Rivers’ RivBea Orchestra and Keith Brion’s New Sousa Band. Clark has also served as a low brass clinician on the European Tour with the American Wind Symphony Orchestra. You can hear him on the Tuba 4’s CD, “Under the Boardwalk.” He has also recorded with John Williams and the Boston Bops Brass Section, the American Wind Symphony Orchestra, the United States Air Force Band, Alfred Publishing, Warner Brothers and Electronic Arts.