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  • Genre: Electronica / Fusion / Nu-Jazz

    Location Seattle Metro, Washington, US

    Profile Views: 4463

    Last Login: 1/11/2012

    Member Since 2/9/2008

    Website clarkgroganmusic.com

    Record Label Independent

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    F. Clark Grogan grew up in Clearwater, Florida, where his involvement with music began early with his participation in church vocal and bell ensembles. These activities continued into his teens when lessons on the guitar turned his ear to the music of Joe Pass, Tal Farlow, and John Coltrane. It was because of this interest in serious improvisational music that Mr. Grogan was encouraged to pursue jazz studies at the University of North Texas. As an undergraduate student at UNT, Mr. Grogan wrote, arranged, and transcribed music for a contemporary jazz quintet specializing in the music of Carla Bley, Don Grolnick, Vital Information, Weather Report and many others. In addition to his involvement with improvisational music, he was beginning to be exposed to the compositional methods of contemporary classical music. Due to an increasing interest in contemporary classical music, Mr. Grogan began to pursue a degree in Music Theory while continuing his involvement with jazz music. After graduating from the University of North Texas in 1989, Mr. Grogan began to broaden his musical experiences in Columbus, Ohio. He continued to be active as an improviser with the Wirewood Duo. An acoustic bass and jazz guitar duo dedicated to performing standard jazz repertoire in intimate spaces throughout central ohio. Shortly after moving to Columbus Mr. Grogan was accepted to the Graduate Program in Music Composition at The Ohio State University. Compositions written at OSU include String Quartet 1 and 2, Three Pieces for Clarinet Solo, Waltz for Frances for Jazz Tentet. While pursuing a graduate degree in Music Composition at The Ohio State University, he was employed as Assistant to the Music Director at St. Joseph Cathedral (a focal point of religious and art music in Columbus). At the cathedral, his duties included supplying a 40-voice choir and a myriad of ensembles with any arrangements or additional instrument parts that were needed for their ambitious concert season. The ensembles ranged from organ, string orchestra, brass quintet, to chamber orchestra. In May of 2000, Mr. Grogan moved to Seattle, Washington. Within just a few months, he was guitar chair in the Issaquah Jazz Orchestra (later to be known as the Hal Sherman Monday Night Jazz Orchestra), teaching guitar students for Bellevue Community College, performing at events all over the east side with a newly reformed Wirewood Duo, Innerplay Guitar Duo, and Sammamish String Duo. These performances have been at many of the east side's most exclusive spaces. Mr. Grogan's current activities include private teaching from Musicworks Northwest, The Ballard Academy of Music and Dance, and his home studio, and work on a CD of contemporary jazz compositions titled "Digerati" to be released in the early of 2010. ............ ....Myspace Layouts.. at Pimp-My-Profile.com / ..Orange and Grey.. / ..Comments.. ..

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    Joe Pass, Tal Farlow, John Coltrane,Pat Metheny, Larry Carlton, Carlos Santana, Oliver Nelson, Eric Dolphy, Gerry Mulligan, Gil Evans, Brian Eno, Eivind Aarset, John Scofield's Uberjam Band, Nils Petter Molvaer,Nine Inch Nails, ECM Jazz, Soundtrack Music of Cliff Martinez, Gustavo Santaolalla and Mark Isham. The Contemporary Classical music of John Cage, Gunther Schuller, and Elliot Carter.

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