Dr. Caryl Clark

Biography

Caryl Clark is a Professor Emerita in Music History and Culture at the University of Toronto and a Fellow of Trinity College. She studied music history at the University of Western Ontario (Honours BMus), McGill University (MA), and Cornell University (PhD). In addition to her academic qualifications, she has earned diplomas in piano performance pedagogy from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the Royal College of Music in London. Her research and teaching interests include Enlightenment aesthetics, Haydn studies, gender and ethnicity in opera, politics in musical reception, piano cultures, Glenn Gould, and music entrepreneurship. Throughout her career, she received a SSHRC post-doctoral fellowship in 1991 and held four SSHRC grants on topics related to eighteenth-century music. She has also been involved with the Halbert Foundation Grant at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, investigating Jewish diaspora music and theatre culture. Currently, her project explores Haydn's interactions with musical, theatrical, political, and visual culture in 1790s London amidst British anxieties over the French revolution. Clark has been an active member of the American Musicological Society, serving on various committees. She co-chairs Opera Exchange, a partnership with the Canadian Opera Company and the Munk School of Global Affairs, and has organized numerous educational symposia. Her related publications include special issues on opera for the University of Toronto Quarterly and major works such as the Cambridge Companion to Haydn and Haydn’s Jews: Representation and Reception on the Operatic Stage.

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