"Mr. Bill" Clark

Bill is a trumpet player, teacher and composer from the New York metropolitan area. He has a BA in Music Ed from a cooperative degree program between Hartwick College and the State University of New York College at Oneonta and did his Masters studies in Music Composition under Bud Udell at the University of Florida.

He is currently a private teacher, an arranger for various bands around the country, and a judge for both the FMBC and the USSBA.

As a performer he had his own jazz group, backed up such artists as Wynton Marsalis and Doc Severinsen and premiered a piece by Pulitzer Prize winning composer Henry Brant on "CBS Sunday Morning with Charles Kuralt."

In the drum corps world, Bill has worked with the Rochester Crusaders, Rochester Firebirds, Teal Sound, Blue Saints, The Magic, and is in his second year with Capital Sound.