Notable Clendinnings

Elizabeth A. Clendinning, PhD

Dr. Elizabeth A. Clendinning Associate Professor of Music at Wake Forest University, specializing in ethnomusicology and an affiliate faculty member at the North Carolina School of the Arts. A graduate of Florida State University (Ph.D. 2013, M.M. 2009) and The University of Chicago (B.A. 2007), she was previously Visiting Instructor in Ethnomusicology and Director of World Music at Emory University (2013-2014). At Wake Forest, she teaches courses in world, Asian, and popular musics and direct the Balinese gamelan, Gamelan Giri Murti.

Jane Piper Clendinning

Jane Piper Clendinning is a Professor of Music Theory at the Florida State University College of Music, where she has taught since 1990. Her research and teaching interests include theory and analysis of late twentieth-century, world, and popular musics, and the pedagogy of music theory. She has studied and performed with the FSU College of Music World Music Program’s Sekaa Gong Hanuman Agung (Balinese gamelan), Aconcagua (Andean music), Mas-N-Steel (Caribbean Steel Band), Chinese Zheng ensemble, and African Drumming and Dance ensemble. She was the founding director of the Cawthon Hall Living-Learning Center.

Kirk Clendinning

Just released a song called Hollywood. Wrote Coira in Everland. Has several patents in plant growth algorithms and optoelectronics.

Max Clendinning

Max Clendinning was an architect and interior designer. He is best known for his 1965 design of the "slot-together but sturdy looking" Maxima chair, inspired in part by computer lettering.

Robert Clendinning, Jr.

Robert Clendinning, Jr was born in 1917 in Lurgan, County Armagh, Northern Ireland. He was on the crew of B-24H Liberator #42-94932 "Paper Doll" on return from a mission to Kassel when they were involved in a mid-air collision with another B-24 (42-94888 "Special Delivery II") and crashed at Walberswick on the Suffolk coast. There were no survivors from either plane.

Weston Clendinning

Front man for the band Hunkpapa out of Belfast, Ireland.