Blake Clawson is a musician at the intersection of composition, conducting, education, research, and performance. Currently serving as Music Director for the new-music choir Renova New Music Ensemble as well as a dual master’s student in composition and choral conducting at the University of Colorado Boulder, Blake is an active collaborator and seeker of art that inspires and draws people together.

In addition to teaching Aural Skills courses at CU Boulder, Blake serves as a Graduate Assistant in the choral department and teaches composition, piano, and jazz at Parlando School of Musical Arts. His primary research focus is Icelandic choral music, both past and present. Blake’s teachers include Coreen Duffy, Elizabeth Swanson, Annika Socolofsky, Carter Pann (CU Boulder), Marc Hafso, Brent Edstrom (Whitworth University), Leonie Holmes, Karen Grylls (University of Auckland), and Kirk Marcy (Edmonds Community College). Apart from music, Blake enjoys skiing, looking at birds, basking in the fresh stillness of a misty forest, and hanging out with his super cool wife.