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Karen Clark's recording with the Galax Quartet, On Cold Mountain: Songs on Poems of Gary Snyder (released March 2011) is on the Innova label's ballot submission to the Grammy Awards nominating committee. American Pulitzer composer Joseph Schwantner is at work on a new piece for Karen Clark, titled, Dream Drapery: Five Songs on Thoreau. With support from Meet the Composer and the Indiana Landmarks Center the Schwantner premiere is slated for October 21, 2012 in Indianapolis. On April 25, 2012 Karen premieres Parable by Ben Johnston with the Partch Ensemble in Los Angeles.

In Fall 2011, Karen Clark and the Galax Quartet performed concerts: American and English Consort Song at Bowdoin College (Brunswick, ME); and at Dickinson College (Carlisle, PA). The week-long artist residency at Dickinson included lecture-demonstrations in poetry and music history classes, rehearsals with the Chinese-Canadian composer, Ka Nin Chan, and culminated in the premiere of Chan's new work: Journeys (wherein Karen "quasi-yodels" and plays the gong!) Karen also presented a Feldenkrais class for singers, and coached the concert choir in baroque performance practice. Karen's evocative contralto is praised in recent reviews in the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and Gapplegate Classical-Modern Review says: "Karen Clark has a very beautiful vocal instrument that she harnesses without undue pathos to the mystically concrete world of Snyder."