The Lord's Prayer
Douglas Clark (tenor), was honored to release Albert Hay Malotte’s Lord’s Prayer single, with incomparable collaborative pianist Vladislav Kovalsky, in the Spring of 2018.
Cover art and design by Carolyn Gratzer Cope | Umami Girl.
About the Artists
Douglas Clark - tenor, has been a long-time member and soloist with the New Jersey Chamber Singers, and the Monmouth Civic Chorus in Red Bank, NJ. He was a soloist on the MCC’s CD Grace Notes, and in many MCC concerts, including Liszt’s Psalm 13, Handel's Messiah, Janacek’s Otčenáš, Buxtehude’s Magnificat, Biebl’s Ave Maria, Mahler's 8th Symphony Veni, Creator Spiritus, Handel's Dixit Dominus, Felsted’s Jonah, Finney’s Psalms, Charpentier’s Filius Prodigus, Think No More Lad from Butterworth’s A Shropshire Lad, Ireland’s The Soldier, Britten's Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal, Vaughann Williams’ Dona Nobis Pacem, and in MCC Christmas concerts.
Doug has collaborated with internationally acclaimed pianist Vladislav Kovalsky, performing lieder by the great masters including Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, R. Strauss, and Wolf. The duo also collaborated on several albums and singles, including Schubert’s song cycle Die Schöne Müllerin, Brahms Liebeslieder & Neue Liebeslieder Waltzes, Op. 52 & 65, and a recording of Malotte's Lord's Prayer, available to the public on digital music outlets.
Doug was a soloist in Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy with the Arcadia Chorale, and the Monmouth Conservatory of Music Youth Orchestra, and has performed with the Point Pleasant Presbyterian Chancel Choir (Haydn’s Creation, Mozart's Requiem, Dvorak's Stabat Mater, and St. Saens’ Christmas Oratorio), and with Steven Russell's Polymania ensemble (Brahms’ Liebeslieder, and Biebl's Ave Maria). He currently is a tenor section leader at the Presbyterian Church of Chatham Township with Deborah Simpkin King, and in summer, is a quartet soloist at Elberon Memorial Church, in Elberon, NJ, with Timothy Broege.
Doug was a soloist in Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy with the Arcadia Chorale, and the Monmouth Conservatory of Music Youth Orchestra, and has performed with the Point Pleasant Presbyterian Chancel Choir (Haydn’s Creation, Mozart's Requiem, Dvorak's Stabat Mater, and St. Saens’ Christmas Oratorio), and with Steven Russell's Polymania ensemble (Brahms’ Liebeslieder, and Biebl's Ave Maria). He currently is a tenor section leader at the Presbyterian Church of Chatham Township with Deborah Simpkin King, and in summer, is a quartet soloist at Elberon Memorial Church, in Elberon, NJ, with Timothy Broege.
Doug has studied voice with Mark Hoeler, former Metropolitan Opera Chorus member, and Kathleen Rubin.
Doug developed and taught a Music Theory curriculum at the Monmouth Conservatory of Music, and teaches music theory privately. He is the proprietor of Glass Bottom Recording Studios in Tinton Falls, specializing in classical, choral, organ, and chamber music recordings, though clients include local area folk musicians and rock bands as well. He served as producer and recording engineer for Timothy Broege’s Organ Music from Elberon CD, selections of which were featured on Michael Barone’s PIPEDREAMS program on WWFM classical radio. Doug also arranges and composes music, and has studied composition with Dr. Kyle Blaha on the faculty of Juilliard in NYC.
Contact: doug@glassbottomstudios.com
Vladislav Kovalsky - is a pianist of prodigious musicianship, superb technique, and impeccable training. Born into an artistic family (his father was a cellist, and mother a former ballet dancer and choreographer) in Khabarovsk in the Far East of Russia, Kovalsky pursued his graduate studies at the famed Rimsky-Korsakov Leningrad State Conservatory of Music. There he studied under teacher Nathan Perelman, one of the legendary Russian pianists and pedagogues revered for his musicianship and refined pianism.
Vladislav Kovalsky is the highest representative currently active in the West of the famed St. Petersburg School of pianism. As a virtuoso, capable of breathtaking speed, with no visible effort, and with never a harsh sound, Kovalsky draws from the piano a prodigious wealth of tone, and a stunningly varied palette of shadings. His repertoire is wide, from Schubert to Rachmaninoff, from Bach to the moderns. His experience as a concert pianist, and collaborative artist, includes tours of Russia, the United States, Canada, Korea, Japan, and Europe, and participation in music festivals worldwide.
As former Executive and Artistic Director of the Monmouth Conservatory of Music, in Red Bank, NJ, Mr. Kovalsky is dedicated to music education in the best traditions of Russia, Europe and the United States. In addition to his active performance schedule, Mr. Kovalsky holds master classes, and lectures. Through his performances, these live recordings, and new recording projects, Mr. Kovalsky continues to inspire development of our beloved art of piano playing.
Mr. Kovalsky is a Steinway Artist.
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