CONTRIBUTOR:

Walter A. Clark

AFFILIATION:

TITLE:

Professor of Musicology

DEPARTMENT:

Music

INSTITUTION:

University of California, Riverside

BIOGRAPHY:

Walter Aaron Clark received his doctorate in musicology from the University of California, Los Angeles, and is currently Distinguished Professor of Musicology at the University of California, Riverside, where he is the founder/director of UCR’s Center for Iberian and Latin American Music. He was the founding editor (2005-16) of Oxford University Press’s award-winning series Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music, and he is now editor-in-chief of the incipient Grove Dictionary of Latin American and Iberian Music, as well as of the online journal Diagonal: An Ibero-American Music Review. He authored Oxford biographies of Isaac Albéniz, Enrique Granados, and Federico Moreno Torroba (with William Krause), and his latest books are Los Romeros: Royal Family of the Spanish Guitar (University of Illinois Press) and Joaquín Rodrigo: A Research and Information Guide (Routledge, forthcoming). He is currently writing a co-authored biography (with Javier Suárez-Pajares) of Joaquín Rodrigo for W. W. Norton, as well as co-editing (with Álvaro Torrente) The Cambridge History of Music in Spain. In 2016, King Felipe VI of Spain conferred on him the title of Comendador de la Orden de Isabel la Católica, a Spanish knighthood, in recognition of his efforts to promote Spanish music and culture.