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Doug Clark

Singer/Songwriter, Sound Engineer/Producer, Composer/Arranger, Part-time Music Teacher Strauss, and Wolf.

Biography

Douglas Clark - tenor, songwriter, composer, recording engineer & producer, has been a long-time member and soloist with the New Jersey Chamber Singers, and the Monmouth Civic Chorus in Red Bank, NJ. He was a soloist on the MCC’s CD Grace Notes, and in many MCC concerts, including Liszt’s Psalm 13, Handel's Messiah, Janacek’s Otčenáš, Buxtehude’s Magnificat, Biebl’s Ave Maria, Mahler's

8th Symphony Veni, Creator Spiritus, Handel's Dixit Dominus, Felsted’s Jonah, Finney’s Psalms, Charpentier’s Filius Prodigus, Think No More Lad from Butterworth’s A Shropshire Lad, Ireland’s The Soldier, Britten's Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal, Vaughann Williams’ Dona Nobis Pacem, and in MCC Christmas concerts. Doug has collaborated with internationally acclaimed pianist Vladislav Kovalsky, performing lieder by the great masters including Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, R. The duo also collaborated on several albums and singles, including Schubert’s song cycle Die Schöne Müllerin, Brahms Liebeslieder & Neue Liebeslieder Waltzes, Op. 52 & 65, and a recording of Malotte's Lord's Prayer, available to the public on digital music outlets. Doug was a soloist in Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy with the Arcadia Chorale, and the Monmouth Conservatory of Music Youth Orchestra, and has performed with the Point Pleasant Presbyterian Chancel Choir (Haydn’s Creation, Mozart's Requiem, Dvorak's Stabat Mater, and St. Saens’ Christmas Oratorio), and with Steven Russell's Polymania ensemble (Brahms’ Liebeslieder, and Biebl's Ave Maria). He currently is a tenor section leader at the Presbyterian Church of Chatham Township with Dr. Deborah Simpkin King, and in summer, is a quartet soloist at Elberon Memorial Church, in Elberon, NJ, with Timothy Broege. Doug has studied voice with Mark Hoeler, former Metropolitan Opera Chorus member, and Kathleen Rubin. Doug developed and taught a Music Theory curriculum at the Monmouth Conservatory of Music, and teaches music theory privately. He is the proprietor of Glass Bottom Recording Studios in Tinton Falls, specializing in classical, choral, organ, and chamber music recordings, though clients include local area folk musicians and rock bands as well. He served as producer and recording engineer for Timothy Broege’s Organ Music from Elberon CD, selections of which were featured on Michael Barone’s PIPEDREAMS program on WWFM classical radio. Doug also arranges and composes music, and has studied composition with Dr. Kyle Blaha on the faculty of Juilliard in NYC.

12/21/2025

Getting ready for dress rehearsal!

Silent Night - Rick Askoff, arr. Dave McKenna

12/18/2025

Was honored to record Rick Askoff here at Glass Bottom Studios, in Tinton Falls, NJ, in this great arrangement of Silent Night by Dave McKenna. Thanks to Carolyn Gratzer Cope for the main camera shot. Thanks for permission from Rick to post here, and Happy Holidays all!

Silent Night - Rick Askoff, arr. Dave McKenna Was honored to record Rick Askoff here at Glass Bottom Studios in Tinton Falls, NJ. Happy Holidays all!

11/28/2025

For Sale:
1964 Baldwin Grand Piano Model L, S/N #163409
Ebony Finish – Good condition, edge wear, minor scratches and nicks. Beautiful tone.
Keys in good condition, Key bushings and hammers replaced in 2017, along with shanks and flanges.
Original strings and action.
Well cared for in a smoke free home-based recording studio.
Located in Tinton Falls, NJ.
Asking $6500
Contact Doug @ 732-687-1955, [email protected]

10/03/2025

Today Minay Gopenko, a true craftsman with decades of experience, completed my renovation with a final tuning and minor voicing adjustment. It's everything I had hoped it would be. I'm so thankful to have found Minay, who steered me in the right direction with this instrument. Look him up if you need a tuner/technician - Minay's Piano Services. Now I have to get practicing and playing again! Also, looking forward to an upcoming recording project -- Stay tuned!

09/13/2025

Today was the big day, getting the renovated piano back into the studio! I was not dissappointed. Mikhail Bogomoly and his team totally transformed this instrument. I love it already. The control is fantastic, even for my out of practice fingers. It needs a final tuning, and once over, which I will have done by Minay Gopenko, but I'll try it out for a few weeks to let it acclimate here and settle in. I'll also get a few opinions of my talented friends to see what they think.

08/09/2025

Today was a very exciting day! I took a trip with my friend and fine pianist Craig Nohl up to Jimmy's Piano Restoration in Yonkers, NY, to meet Mikhail Bogomolny, the amazing Steinway restoration specialist who has overseen my project, to check how it came out. I am so excited and thrilled with the results! The action is a dream. A totally new experience compared to what it was. Such control, and not at all hard to play. The tone and power are wonderful, and we will make adjustments when we get it in the studio here, to make it even more as I want it, and to work in this space. The bass is gorgeous. The soft pedal gave beautiful bell-like tones I was looking for in the upper mids. Goose bump time. The insides look amazing, from beautifully refinished soundboard and plate, down to the refinished dampers (total suprise to me), and shiny new pins and hardware. In short, it is a dream come true for me, to have this kind of instrument, now in this kind of shape. It was treated with the love it deserves. And I'm very excited for my Glass Bottom Studios customers, who will love and appreciate it for their projects.

The last hurdle, is that back in 2003, when the piano underwent a restoration and refinishing from a different shop in New Hartford, NY, for some reason, they put on legs from a Steinway M, not the correct larger ones for the B. That causes some slight instability, which bothers me. So we are looking into getting that taken care of, to complete the restoration the right way.

07/30/2025

It's coming back together now! Next step is damper bushing redo - the last one was done incorrectly. Too much play for the damper wires. Also some good news that this is in fact a Steinway B, and not an A3 (there had been some question raised). Target date to go and give it a test run is August 9!