Dallas Symphony Orchestra names Anthony Blake Clark new chorus director

The Dallas Symphony Orchestra has picked Anthony Blake Clark as the next director of the Dallas Symphony Chorus, starting in the 2023-24 concert season. He was one of several candidates auditioned to succeed Joshua Habermann, who stepped down in 2022 after 11 seasons.

Clark prepared the chorus for Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in May 2022, for the 2022 Gala and the May 11-14 performances of Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana and Catulli Carmina.

Next season, he’ll prepare Liszt’s Faust Symphony, the Brahms German Requiem, Franz Schmidt’s Book of the Seven Seals and the DSO’s Christmas Pops.

A native of Dumas, Texas, north of Amarillo, Clark holds a bachelor’s degree in composition from Baylor University and a master’s in choral conducting from the University of Birmingham in England. He is pursuing a doctorate in orchestral conducting with Marin Alsop at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore.

He is currently director of choruses for the Richmond (Va.) Symphony, music director of the Baltimore Choral Arts Society and artistic director of Bach Vespers at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in New York.

He has prepared choruses for orchestras including the Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Radio Orchestra, City of Birmingham and Baltimore symphony orchestras.

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