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Joe Clark just completed seven years as one of the band directors at La Porte High School in La Porte, Indiana. This fall, he will move back to Massachusetts to begin a new position as band director at Billerica Memorial High School. He received his Master's in Wind Band Conducting from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign under Dr. Steve Peterson. While there, he was a co-director of the UIUC Clarinet Choir and a member of the Sapphire Reed Quintet. Previously, he attended the Eastman School of Music and the University of Rochester, where he received degrees in music education, clarinet performance, and mathematics. While there, he studied clarinet with Kenneth Grant and conducting with Oliver Hagen and Eric Laprade. He served as the principal clarinet of the La Porte County Symphony Orchestra for five years and has played with a number of chamber groups, including the reed quintet CirQ, the wind quintet Azzimato Winds, and the clarinet quartet Three Stands Apiece.