Clark Suprynowicz

Clark Suprynowicz is a San Francisco Bay Area composer. Following residencies in recent years with the Berkeley Symphony and the Berkeley Opera, Clark had three large works premiered: The opera Caliban Dreams (with writer Amanda Moody, featuring tenor John Duykers) in a Berkeley Opera production; Tectonic, a commission from the Mill Valley Philharmonic, featuring readings by poet Jane Hirshfield, and Machine, a new opera with writer / director Mark Streshinsky, which premiered at the Crucible in Oakland. In 2012, Clark's string quartet Elegance and Superstition was part of the Hell Hot Festival in Hong Kong in a program with works by the Hear Here Composers Collective and esteemed composer Tan Dun. Joshua Kosman has said of Clark Suprynowicz, in a San Francisco Chronicle review: "When Suprynowicz goes all out with lyrical, melodic writing, the effect is ravishing." Mr. Suprynowicz spent many years in the trenches as a jazz musician before decamping to compose full-time. He has worked as a bassist with John Zorn, Bill Frisell, Art Lande, Max Roach, and Tom Waits.