Mark Dover, Clarinetist
Clarinetist Mark Dover has always maintained firm roots in Classical music, while at the same time devoting his career to searching as deeply as he can into the vast world of improvised music. In January of 2016, Mr. Dover joined the Grammy-nominated wind quintet Imani Winds. With them, he maintains a busy touring schedule as well as multiple residencies over the past few seasons at such schools as University of Chicago, where the group was Ensemble-in-Residence from 2016-2018, Mannes School of Music, and Duke University. Past season highlights include giving the 2018 World Premiere of Valerie Coleman’s Concerto “Phenomenal Women,” written for Imani Winds with the American Composers Orchestra under George Manahan at Carnegie Hall, as well as performances in 2019 with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra under Robert Spano and the Albany Symphony under David Alan Miller.
Mr. Dover maintains an active career as a chamber musician and freelance clarinetist, and has performed with the Detroit Symphony under Leonard Slatkin, the Cleveland Orchestra under David Zinman at Kent Blossom Music Center, numerous times with the New World Symphony in Miami Beach, and in the theatre world with numerous Broadway and Off-Broadway productions. Mr. Dover also has an extensive background in jazz and improvised music and has performed and/or recorded with a wide array of musicians including Vulfpeck, Edward Simon, Brian Blade, Scott Colley, David Binney, Bernard Purdie, Cyrille Aimée, the Temptations, Darren Criss, and many more. He serves on the clarinet faculty at Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts as well as at CUNY Queens College at the Aaron Copland School of Music.
Mr. Dover performs at CCCMF 2023 on October 15, and 16
