Philip Clark graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London where his teachers included Nannie Jamieson, Peter Schidlof, Max Rostal, the Amadeus Quartet, William Pleeth and Emanuel Hurwitz. He has performed with many distinguished ensembles including the London Symphony, the Royal Philharmonic, the English Chamber Orchestra, Scottish Opera and the Menuhin Festival. As a soloist and string quartet player, he has played in more than thirty countries. He has broadcast with the BBC and other European stations, the Australian and New Zealand Broadcasting Corporations, and has taken part in many recordings. He has taken part in numerous recordings and played before the Queens of England and Holland.
Mr. Clark taught at the Universities of Edinburgh and Lancaster in the U.K., Auckland in New Zealand, and Kent State. He was also a professor of Violin and Viola at Ithaca College in New York where he was president of the String Teachers Association. He now lives and teaches in Ivy, Virginia. His many compositions and arrangements are published by Latham Music.
- Graduate and Solo/Chamber Music Prizewinner at Guildhall School of Music, London
- Teachers include The Amadeus Quartet, Nannie Jamieson, William Pleeth, Max Rostal
- Worked with William Walton, Benjamin Britten, Pablo Casals, Mstislav Rostropovich many other distinguished artists.
- Violist and professor with the Edinburgh Quartet at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, with the Sartori Quartet at the University of Lancaster, England, the Auckland String Quartet at the University of Auckland in New Zealand, and Accordo Perfetto Piano Quartet at Ithaca College, New York.
- Performed internationally with the London Symphony, Royal Philharmonic, Royal Scottish National, Richmond Symphony, English Chamber and Menuhin Festival, English National Opera, Scottish Opera, and Glimmerglass Opera Orchestras among many others.
- Performed all 83 Quartets by Haydn, and all of the chamber works of Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert, Brahms and Bartok.
- Performed for Royal Family at Windsor Castle for State Visits.
- Recordings for British, Australian and New Zealand Broadcasting Corporations