Mark Dover

GRAMMY® Award-winning clarinetist Mark Dover has served as the clarinetist of Imani Winds since 2016, and has appeared as a soloist with the Atlanta, Baltimore, and Albany Symphonies. Dover received a GRAMMY® as a player and producer for “Best Classical Compendium” at the 2024 GRAMMY® Awards for Imani Wind’s Passion for Bach and Coltrane. His debut album with Imani Winds, Bruits, was nominated for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance at the 2022 GRAMMY® Awards. Recent highlights include appearances at Carnegie Hall Presents, NPR’s tiny desk, and debuts at La Jolla Music Society and Tippet Rise Arts Center. Dover joined the chamber music faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music in 2021 and serves on the clarinet faculty at Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, and at Queens College, CUNY. Dover is a frequent collaborator with Vulfpeck, an American funk band. He received his Master of Music degree from Manhattan School of Music and his Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Michigan. He is a Buffet Crampon and Vandoren Artist.