Andrew James Clark (b.1994) is a Canadian composer currently residing in Toronto. He is the founder of Classical Context, the President of the Canadian Composers Orchestra, an Associate Composer of the Canadian Music Centre and the principal pianist of Heron Park Baptist Church. Recent awards include the 2026 Karen Kieser Prize in Canadian Music, his Symphonic Dance ranking second place in the Etobicoke Philharmonic's 2022 Young Composer Competition, and his Prelude From the Rhythmic Suite No.1 being a finalist in the 2020 New York Contemporary Music Symposium. 

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Andrew's compositions have been performed in North America, Europe and Asia. He has been commissioned by Gustavo Gimeno as a NextGen Composer with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and has received a Composition Fellowship with the Hamilton Philharmonic. He has a published work with Counterpoint Library, and his music is included in the ACNMP’s Contemporary Showcase Syllabus. His professional development includes a Conducting Apprenticeship with Orchestra Toronto, participation in the Amadeus Choir's Choral Creation Lab and participation in the Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra’s New Generation Composition Program. In August 2025 he attended The Francis Poulenc Academy in France as a visiting Canadian composer participant. 

 

Andrew is also an accomplished pianist, educator and concert curator. His concert series Classical Context has been featured on ludwig-van.com's “Critic’s Picks”, and routinely showcases early-career professionals from throughout Canada. He has hosted concerts on behalf of Kindred Spirits Orchestra and has appeared on The New Classical FM’s Sunday Night with the TSO series. He is active as a harmony and counterpoint teacher across Canada, the US and Asia. His efforts in sustaining a music therapy program for elderly and homeless musicians earned him a Gordon Cressy Student Leadership Award in 2016, and in 2021 he helped launch the Digital Generations Program which creates digital composition portfolios on behalf of  emerging composers.

 

Andrew is currently the 2026 composer for the Toronto Symphony Orchestra’s Art Of Healing Program in partnership with The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). 

 

Andrew is married to Canadian composer and multi-disciplinary artist Domenic Clark (formerly Jarlkaganova). He holds a Bmus, Mmus and DMA in composition from the University of Toronto's Faculty of Music completed under the supervision of Gary Kulesha.