Audio Excerpts
Romanza (2007)
For violin and chamber orchestra
Commissioned by Orchestra 2001
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“Shar Ki Ri” and “Tse Go La” from Tse Go La (At the threshold of this life) (2012). Listen to the complete work here.
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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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
News
Andrea was awarded 2013 international music fellowships at Civitella Ranieri in Italy and Le Moulin å Nef in Auvillar, France for this summer. In 2012, she received awards from the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center and Fundación Valparaiso in Spain and Montalvo in California, and 2013 awards from the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation in Taos and the Corporation of Yaddo . She was recently visiting composer at the University of Texas at Austin, the College of William and Mary, The University of Chicago and the International Conservatory Week Festival in St. Petersburg, Russia. Andrea is currently working on commissions for the Grand Rapids Women’s Chorus, Arc Duo, Susquehanna University, Denise Tryon of the Philadelphia Orchestra and an opera to libretto by Jean Claude van Itallie and Lois Walden commissioned by Gene Kaufman and Terry Eder. Her vocal works will be featured at the CoOperative Program at Westminster Choir College this summer. A strong advocate for creating vital, alternative spaces for arts, she is curating and hosting Salons around the country.
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) is celebrating 26 years. Contact Andrea.
Andrea Clearfield’s Salon
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.
Andrea received grants from The Rubin Foundation and The University of the Arts to trek to the restricted 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. Two 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. Andrea’s recent 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 on 4/29/12 and the NYC premiere took place on 5/19/12. 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. Read NYC review.
