About Reber Clark
Reber Clark is a composer for movies and live ensembles. With a passion for creating captivating musical pieces, Reber Clark aims to evoke emotions and enhance storytelling through music. Each composition is a unique blend of creativity and expertise, adding depth and richness to every project.
Born in 1955 in Des Moines, Iowa our family moved to Little Rock, Arkansas when I was eight years old. It was quite a culture shock but over the years things gradually evened out. I attended Little Rock Central High School, played trumpet in the band, met a lovely girl there, directed the pep band and began to write music. The impetus for this was my director telling me that if I actually wrote anything down they’d put it on the stand and play it. Changed my life. An earlier encounter on a school field trip to hear Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra just blew me away as I’d never heard such a thing. All I knew was I wanted to do that.
Arkansas at the time did not have many opportunities to write music and get your stuff played so I did whatever I could. Beauty pageant orchestra charts, children’s theatre, marching band, concert band, rock bands, jazz bands – whatever I could do. I began teaching and was still writing when a publisher accepted a band work of mine and I decided that was what I wanted to do. So I left teaching and pursued writing full time, eventually being published worldwide by Southern Music Company, Studio P/R, Wingert/Jones Inc., Columbia Pictures Publications, Warner Brothers Music Publications and C. Alan Publications.
Still no movie work so I decided to make my own and score it. Entitled Lovecraft Paragraphs and consisting of some of my favorite writings by the author H. P. Lovecraft I submitted it to the H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival in Portland, Oregon and it was accepted.
As composer for the H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society’s Dark Adventure Radio Theatre Reber Clark has composed music for Dagon: War of Worlds, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward and Herbert West: Reanimator.
His movie, Lovecraft Paragraphs, premiered at the 2009 H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival. His music is featured on The H. P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast.
Most recent work includes
music for Chris Lackey and Greig Johnson’s Lovecraft video trilogy of The Ordeal of Randolph Carter, From Beyond the Beyond, and Pickman’s Guest, The H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society’s Dark Adventure Radio Theatre production of Dagon: War of Worlds, Hassan & Lavender’s film productions of Walk Away and Dark Chocolate, Christoph Angehrn’s animated short INVASION! Robert Cappelletto’s film The Last Man After the War, original music and orchestrations for the H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society’s The Curious Sea Shanties of Innsmouth, Mass., reorchestrating the prelude to Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Sinfonia Antartica for wind ensemble, fulfilling a commission for the Concordia University of Chicago Wind Symphony. He has many music and movie projects in active development.
He currently resides in suburban Chicago.