Dave Clark is a drummer/multi-instrumentalist/vocalist, composer, music student, music educator and the leader of the WoodChopper’s Association Improviser’s Orchestra.

Dave has been lucky enough to have performed with such diverse artists as the Dinner is Ruined, the Nihilist Spasm Band, Jah Youssouf and Mansa Sissoko of Mali, West Africa, John Oswald, Neil Peart of Rush, the Sun Ra Arkestra, the Woodshed Orchestra, the Rheostatics, Jean Derome, Gord Downie, Sook-Yin Lee, and Lewis Melville amongst others.

Dave has studied with master drum teacher Jim Blackley of Barrie, Canada, Bata music master Gilberto Morales Chiong of Matanzas Cuba, British guitarist and composer Fred Frith, and saxophonist David Mott of Toronto, Canada.

Mr. Clark teaches music at his studio in Toronto, Canada as well as leading his Improviser’s Woodshed music workshops at public, secondary and post-secondary schools, as well as at music festivals, in art galleries, for theatre companies and for various bands.