Rate My Professor Lisa Clark

Dr. Lisa Clark serves as the Music Program Coordinator and Associate Professor of Music at Kentucky Wesleyan College in Owensboro, Kentucky. Holding a DMA in Vocal Performance from the University of Kentucky, where she received the Alltech Scholarship and completed her dissertation "Synchrony of the Sublime: A Performer’s Guide to Duke Ellington’s Wordless Melodies for Soprano," she also earned an MM from Florida State University and a BM from Northwestern University.

Dr. Clark balances her academic career with extensive performance experience as a soprano soloist and chamber musician. Highlights include solo appearances with the Owensboro Symphony Orchestra in a West Side Story/Porgy and Bess medley, as Merab in Handel’s Saul with the Evansville Bach Singers, and as soprano soloist in Fauré’s Requiem with the Owensboro Symphony Chorus. A member of the American Spiritual Ensemble, she featured on their holiday CD "Behold the Star!" and toured nationally, performing at the Kennedy Center. She has portrayed Clara in UK Opera Theatre’s Porgy and Bess, debuted as Eliza in Joseph Baber’s River of Time, and played Ida B. Wells in Tazewell Thompson’s Constant Star. Additional engagements encompass choruses with Chicago Lyric Opera, San Francisco Opera, and Cincinnati Opera in Porgy and Bess, church solos, educational outreach, and voiceover work for Lexmark and Traditional Bank. Beyond teaching, she maintains a private studio, serves as a high school clinician, and acts as historian for the mid-south region of the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS). Her students have been NATS finalists and advanced to graduate programs at Mannes, NYU, CCM, and UNC.