Education
Work experience
Musical activities
Hobbies, etc.
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General information
Brian Clark
3 Orchard Terrace
St Ives
Cambridgeshire
Date of birth: 16-06-61
E-mail: [email protected]
Education
1978-1983: St Andrews University
MA Hons (2:1) Music
Dissertation on Buxtehude's Membra Jesu nostri, specialist paper on Handel's London
First Year subjects: Music, French, German
Second Year subjects: Music, French, Ancient History
1973-1978: Craigie High School, Dundee
SYS (Certificate of Sixth Year Studies) - French, Chemistry
Highers - French, German, English, Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Music
"O" Grades - History, Maths, Chemistry, Physics, French, German, English, Arithmetic
Grade 8 Violin and Recorder (the latter in one year as part of my "Higher" course)
Participated twice (none too successfully!) in Stirling University Maths Competition
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Work experience
October 1989-present: Self-employed (trading as "Sounds Interesting")
Contract / project work
Cambridge University Library: Supervisor, Manuscripts Reading Room
Lamb Project: selecting, digitising, databasing (including writing 120-word original captions)
2400 items of Victorian ephemera from Dundee City Council's Local Studies Collection
In preparation for this, I attended the Glasgow University Digitisation Summer School in July 2001
I already have Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Access, and Macromedia Dreamweaver experience
and am happy hand-coding web pages
Photopolis: databasing (again including the researching and writing of 120-word captions)
6500 Victorian photographs from the same library's Wilson Collection
Wighton Collection: completing an online database of that library's collection of early music prints
Music editing and typesetting
Until recently hand-coding using an Acorn program called PMS, now also using Sibelius2
King's Music, Huntingdon - world leaders in early opera
JOED Music, Carshalton Beeches - Renaissance music specialists
The King's Consort - among the best period instrument groups
Oxford University Press - worked on John Rutter's Choral Classics series
Church of Scotland - edited one musical, made musical arrangements for another
Avison Ensemble of Newcastle - editing and setting their forthcoming Complete Edition
Carus-Verlag Stuttgart - several editions of 17th-century church music
Cornetto-Verlag, Stuttgart - contributing to their Complete Edition of Capricornus
Writing and proofreading
Early Music Review, published ten times per annum
The Courier and Advertiser, Dundee
Teaching and playing - see below for details
Translating and interpreting
Church of Scotland - translated two Bibles (one for children, one for teenagers) from Dutch
Dundee Chamber of Commerce - various jobs (mainly from German and French)
Tayside Police - worked as an interpreter in French
May-June 1989: British Council scholarship to study musical sources in former East Germany
1986-1989: D. C. Thomson and Co., Ltd., Dundee
Magazine journalist: tasks including sub-editing, proofreading, writing, layout-designing
Specific positions: Photo editor, Promotions editor
1985-1986: Covent Garden Records, London WC2E
Retail assistant offering educated guidance to customers buying classical music on CD
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Musical activities
Teacher of violin, viola and cello to Grade 8 standard
Composer of educational materials and fun string quartet arrangements
As performer:
June 2002: Leader of Ruthven Festival Orchestra
Easter 2002: Leader of Bach Players, Edinburgh: St Mark Passion
Christmas 2002: Leader of Bach Players, Edinburgh: Christmas Oratorio
Christmas 2002: Guest leader of Edinburgh University Chamber Orchestra: Messiah
June 2001: Violinist in two (different) Monteverdi concerts in Suffolk
May 2001: Guest Conductor of Edinburgh University Renaissance Group
August 2000: Soloist with Tayside Sinfonietta - Fasch Concerto in G
June 2000: Soloist at Ruthven Festival - Haydn Concerto in G
August 1999: Violinist in Monteverdi Vespers at Edinburgh International Festival
Easter 1999: Tenor with Edinburgh University Renaissance Group on Italian tour
1996-2000: Director of Seicento, giving first modern performances of 17th-century music
1990-1996: Director of The Legrenzi Consort, reviving unknown Italian music
Have played with the City of Glasgow Symphony Orchestra, and his period instrument equivalent
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Hobbies and other information
Loves travelling (and using his languages!): most recently Barcelona (wow!) and Sicily (mmmm...)
Keen (but not wonderful!) cook
Clean UK driving licence (with no claims' bonus)
Enjoys designing web pages to share things he's discovered...
References on request (different people, depending on their relevance to the job applied for)
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