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 is currently at The MacDowell Colony working on an opera on the life of 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 commissions for the Pennsylvania Quintet for their 30 Year Anniversary, a cantata for the Philadelphia Gay Men’s Choir and a work celebrating Dolce Suono’s 10 year anniversary for flutists Mimi Stillman and Jeffrey Khaner, Principal Flute in the Philadelphia Orchestra. River Melos was commissioned by Philadelphia Orchestra hornist Denise Tryon who premiered it on June 1 in Tokyo at Salon Dolce with pianist Tomoko Kanamura. Andrea’s electroacoustic score, Califia, is a winner in the 2014 International Alliance for Women in Music Annual Concert Competition and will be performed in venues around the world in 2014/15. Califia was created at Montalvo in collaboration with filmmaker Quintan Ana Wikswo and Group Motion Dance Company. She was awarded other 2014 fellowships at Yaddo and Ucross and in 2013 received fellowships at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation in Taos, at Civitella Ranieri in Umbria, Italy and Le Moulin å Nef in Auvillar, France. She was the featured composer at the 2014 Women Composers Festival of Hartford. Her work Convergence, will be released on Bridge Records with acclaimed violist Barbara Westphal and pianist Christian Ruvolo this year. Click here for Andrea’s upcoming concerts.
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) celebrated 27 years in May. The Salon, however, is currently facing an uncertain future since the owner put the Salon house on the market in May. The Save the Salon team has a group of interested investors to purchase the house so that Andrea and the Salon can continue to rent but still need a few more people to invest. Contact Andrea here. Read more about her Philadelphia Salon here. She is also curating and hosting other Salons around the country including Aspen, Phoenix, NY and PA.
Andrea Clearfield’s 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.
