During his recent North American tour, Dimitri Malignan and I had the honour of presenting my latest piano sonata, PUPO, in Halifax and Montréal. The performances were met with a very warm reception, and we are delighted to announce our plans to bring these performances to Europe. Additionally, a live recording of our performance in Halifax is available for viewing online, with the concert starting at the 18:25 mark. Should you wish to show your support, a sponsorship button is provided for contributions. Otherwise I’ve added a Youtube link for those of you who want a quick click and listen (scroll down half a page)

For those who prefer the live experience, we are excited to share that our PUPO program will be showcased in Paris, Brussels, and Antwerp in the coming months. Further details will be shared in the next update.

We extend our sincere gratitude to Peggy Walt, Shimon Walt, CMC Atlantic, Concours musical international de Montréal, and Raimy Plante for their support during the tour! Oh and SOCAN for flying me out!

I’m excited to share that I just had a premiere in Salt Lake City, Utah – I was commissioned by choreographer Shane Urton to score his new dance-theatre creation “Sweetspot” (I called the score “Study II” & made a score-video). This was Shane and I’s first time working together, AND my first time working with pianist Olena Mozil who played wonderfully on the recording! The folks from RDT Utah did a phenomenal job presenting the work; Caleb Daly, Trung “Daniel” Do, Jonathan Kim, Megan O’Brien, Ursula Perry and Caitlyn Richter and even scored us a warm, warm review:

“Shane Urton’s Sweetspot was a brilliant organic study of sweet spots in dance movement that grew in metaphorical complexity, along with dazzling lighting design executed by Pilar I. and an impressive solo piano score by Adam Vincent Clarke and performed and recorded by Olena Mozil.”

“The lighting design beautifully paralleled Clarke’s excellent score, marking how discrete phrases of music appear and eventually form a melodic line, in the first section. As manifested in the lighting, the music accelerates to its most intense drive in the middle section before losing its momentum in the closing section, while calls for a response or affirmation are left unanswered, as they fade into silence.”

– The Utah Review

Photo: Stuart Ruckman

TheaterKrant’s review of the Dutch premiere of Âmok/Âmok’s contr (a / o) vers (e / u)s at the Jonge Harten Festival.

“With that permanent threat of all those stacked plates that she is getting closer to. She won’t…” – TheaterKrant.nl

“It’s uncompromising and terrifying. Indeed: contra and versus. In their radical approach to their subject, Borremans and Clarke leave little to be desired.”- TheaterKrant.nl 

The past summer has been eventful with the premiere of “Why this chair does not exist’ by John-William Watson at Messums 4×20 in the UK. ‘WTCDNE’ will begin touring the UK alongside ‘Hang in There, Baby‘ starting with two dates:

Thursday, August 31st on New Square Street, London, UK with East London Dance

&

Friday, September 29th at Pavilion Dance South West, Bournemouth, England

Stay tuned!

Adam’s dance-theatre company Âmok/Âmok presents it’s DOUBLE BILL ft. SOLO ONE and contr (a / o) vers (e / u) s [contra -verse – us], at 20h00 in C O R S O (BE) on January 21st, 2023.

Tickets Available Here

Duet from John-William Watson’s Hang in there, Baby! performed by the wonderful Susato Trio. A playful duo that, reminiscent of miming, has an air of playfulness framed by something a bit more sinister. HITB premiered at Sadler’s Wells in October, 2022.

“wonderfully bizzarre”— The Stage Review of Hang in there, Baby! by John-William Watson, listen to part of the score here.

Interview on Cultur Journal of the Romanian National Television, Adam discusses his work as a composer with a focus on dance, theatre, opera, and his dance-theatre company Âmok/Âmok

La Scena Musicale reviews Clarke’s La Danse Balkanique and his project Est-Ouest whilst on tour in Canada.

“…[La Danse Balkanique] proved to be the most explosive and festive of all, with occasional waves of lyricism. Always in the spirit of merging cultures together, the driving force of the project, the work borrowed from Bulgarian rhythms which gave it a exhilariting character.” – La Scena Musicale

“There are trajectories of life that strike the imagination and seem to indicate that beyond the vicissitudes of fate, nothing is left to chance. The life of the young Canadian composer Adam Vincent Clarke is one of those…” – La Scena Musicale

La Scena Musicale features Adam Vincent Clarke, telling a backstory to Clarke’s journey to composing La Danse Balkanique and his project Est-Ouest.