Audio Excerpts
Tse Go La (At the threshold of this life) (2012). Listen to the entire work here. Choral music available at Seeadot Music Publishing
Cantata for double chorus, chamber orchestra, electronics
Commissioned by The Mendelssohn Club and Pennsylvania Girlchoir
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The Golem Psalms (2006)
For Sanford Sylvan, baritone, SATB chorus and orchestra
Commissioned by The Mendelssohn Club, Innova Label
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Lung-Ta (The Windhorse) (2009)
For large chamber ensemble
Commissioned by Network for New Music
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The Long Bright (2004)
For Hila Plitmann, soprano, treble chorus and orchestra
Commissioned by David Wolman
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Romanza (2007)
For violin and chamber orchestra
Commissioned by Orchestra 2001
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Convergence (2008)
For viola and piano
Commissioned by Barbara Westphal
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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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Three Songs for Violin and Double Bass
after poems by Pablo Neruda (1998)
For Heide Sibley and Edgar Meyer
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Prayer and Ruth’s Aria from Women of Valor (2000)
Hila Plitmann, Gail Dubinbaum, Valerie Harper (narr.) and orchestra
Commissioned by The Los Angeles Jewish Symphony
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25 Years of Andrea Clearfield’s Salon
Interview with Andrea on Tse Go La cantata
Mendelssohn Club:Tse Go La premiere
“Shar Ki Ri” from Tse Go La cantata with images from Andrea’s treks to Upper Mustang, Nepal
Excerpt from Califia and the Trespassers in collaboration with filmmaker/poet Quintan Ana Wikswo
News
Andrea’s work Convergence was just released on Bridge Records: Convergences: Johannes Brahms & Andrea Clearfield, with Barbara Westphal, viola and Christian Ruvolo, piano. Andrea was recently awarded composer residencies at Ragdale, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and a 2014 Copland House Residency December and January where was living and working on her opera in Aaron Copland’s home. The opera is on the life of the great Tibetan yogi Milarepa to libretto by Jean Claude van Itallie and Lois Walden, commissioned by Gene Kaufman and Terry Eder. She is also composing a work for Øystein Baadsvik, tuba, commissioned by Norwegian hornist Froydis Ree Wekre and a cantata for the Philadelphia Gay Men’s Choir. Her work, AfterBach, celebrating Dolce Suono’s 10 year anniversary was premiered on January 18 in Philadelphia by acclaimed flutists Mimi Stillman and Jeffrey Khaner, Principal Flute in the Philadelphia Orchestra. Her Yiddish choral cycle, Farlorn Alemen will be premiered on March 7 and 8 by the Harmonium Choral Society in Morristown, NJ. Her 5 movement woodwind quintet, Compass Kaleidoscope, will be premiered by the Pennsylvania Quintet in celebration of their 30 year Anniversary at Penn State University on April 12. River Melos was commissioned by Philadelphia Orchestra hornist Denise Tryon who premiered the work in Tokyo at Salon Dolce. Andrea’s electroacoustic score, Califia, is a winner in the International Alliance for Women in Music Annual Concert Competition and is being performed in venues around the world this year. She was awarded 2014 fellowships at The MacDowell Colony, Yaddo and Ucross and 2013 fellowships at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation in Taos, Civitella Ranieri in Italy and Le Moulin å Nef in France. Her cantata Tse Go La was just published by See-A-Dot Press. Several treble choir works are now published by Boosey & Hawkes including The Kiss, commissioned by the Grand Rapids Women’s Choir. Click here for Andrea’s upcoming concerts.
Andrea’s Salon, A 28 Year cherished Philadelphia arts tradition. We did it – The Salon now has a permanent home. 12 investors and numerous supporters made a 25 year dream come true! This little film helped it happen…
A strong advocate for creating vital, alternative spaces for arts, Andrea’s Salon “one of the best-known music salons in the country” with “deep bench of topflight musicians”, “an underground sensation” (The Philadelphia Inquirer) and winner of the “Best of Philly Award 2008” (Philadelphia Magazine) celebrates 28 years! Andrea is also curating and hosting other Salons around the country including Aspen, Phoenix, NY and Main Line Reform Temple Salon, Wynnewood, PA.
Andrea’s 2011 Salon Video
Andrea received grants from The Rubin Foundation, American Composers Forum and The University of the Arts to trek to the remote Himalayan region of Lo Monthang, Nepal in 2008 and 2010 to record the music of royal court singer, Tashi Tsering. She and anthropologist Katey Blumenthal recorded over 130 songs not previously documented. Their fieldwork is now up at the University of Cambridge World Oral Literature Project. Andrea’s cantata, Tse Go La, incorporates some of these Tibetan melodies. Co-commissioned by The Mendelssohn Club and the Pennsylvania Girlchoir it premiered with the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia in 2012 with subsequent performances in NYC, NJ and Austin, TX. Listen to the entire work here. Other compositions inspired by the field work, Kawa Ma Gyur and Lung-Ta were commissioned by Network for New Music. Watch a video. Hear excerpts from Lung-Ta. Read Andrea’s article “Journey to the Top of the World” in the International Alliance for Women in Music Journal. Read David Stearns’ feature story in the Philadelphia Inquirer. More info here.
Andrea’s cantata The Golem Psalms was released on Innova Label with works by Higdon and Primosch. Opera News writes, “Her work is vivid and galvanizing… achieving a timeless beauty. Clearfield is a natural musical dramatist.” The CD was selected as Music Album of the Week by WQXR in NYC. More info.
