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Romanza (2007)

For violin and chamber orchestra
Commissioned by Orchestra 2001

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Lung-Ta (2009)

For large chamber ensemble
Commissioned by Network for New Music

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…and low to the lake falls home (2009)

For flute, viola and harp
Commissioned by Carol Wincenc

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The Long Bright (2004)

For soprano, children’s chorus and orchestra
Commissioned by David Wolman

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The Golem Psalms (2006)

For Sanford Sylvan, baritone, SATB chorus and orchestra
Commissioned by The Mendelssohn Club

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Three Songs for Violin and Double Bass
after poems by Pablo Neruda (1998)

For Heide Sibley and Edgar Meyer

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Prayer from Women of Valor (2000)

For soprano, mezzo-soprano, narrator and orchestra
Commissioned by The Los Angeles Jewish Symphony

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Tse Go La world premiere

News

Andrea was awarded the American Academy in Rome 2010 Fellowship from the American Composers Forum and 2011 residencies at Yaddo, the Macdowell Colony and Fundación Valparaiso, Spain. She was awarded two music fellowships in Italy from the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center and the Civitella Ranieri Foundation for 2012. She was recently a guest composer at XI International Conservatory Week Festival in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Andrea’s Salon “one of the best-known music salons in the country” with “deep bench of topflight musicians” (The Philadelphia Inquirer), and winner of the “Best of Philly Award 2008” (Philadelphia Magazine), Celebrates 25 Years! Watch video by Beyond1Film. Visit Salon page.

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Andrea and anthropologist Katey Blumenthal received grants from The Rubin Foundation and The University of the Arts to return to Lo Monthang, Nepal to document the music of royal court singer, Tashi Tsering. They trekked to this restricted Himalayan region in Summer, 2010 and recorded over 130 songs. Andrea’s compositions inspired by her field work, Kawa Ma Gyur and Lung-Ta commissioned by Network for New Music, premiered to sold out houses. Watch a video about the concert. Hear excerpts from Lung-Ta. Andrea is writing a cantata incorporating some of these Tibetan melodies, Tse Go La, co-commissioned by The Mendelssohn Club and the Pennsylvania Girlchoir with the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia for premiere at Holy Trinity Church, Phila. on 4/29/12. Read Andrea’s article “Journey to the Top of the World” in the International Alliance for Women in Music Journal, 2011

Andrea’s cantata, The Golem Psalms was recently released on Innova Label with works by Higdon and Primosch. Click here for more info.

Andrea’s trio “…and low to the lake falls home” was premiered at the Morgan Library, NYC by Les Amies: renowned flutist Carol Wincenc and NY Philharmonic principal players Cynthia Phelps and Nancy Allen. NY Times Review.