Audio Excerpts
Romanza (2007)
For violin and chamber orchestra
Commissioned by Orchestra 2001
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Excerpts 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 is currently composer in residence at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation in Taos. This summer she was awarded fellowships at Civitella Ranieri in Umbria, Italy and Le Moulin å Nef in Auvillar, France. 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. In 2014 she will be the featured guest composer at the Women Composers Festival of Hartford. Andrea is working on commissions for the Grand Rapids Women’s Chorus; Arc Duo and the Diller-Quaile School of Music; Susquehanna University; Pennsylvania Girlchoir; Philadelphia Orchestra hornist Denise Tryon; Norwegian hornist Froydis Ree Wekre for Øystein Baadsvik, tuba; Oboe and English Horn for Duo Agosto: Ling-Fei Kang and Charles Huang, commissioned by the Women Composers Festival of Hartford; a chamber work for oboist Ian Shafer and an opera to libretto by Jean Claude van Itallie and Lois Walden commissioned by Gene Kaufman and Terry Eder. Her electronic score in collaboration with filmmaker Quintan Ana Wikswo and Group Motion Dance Company, “Califia” was premiered on 9/28 at Christ Church in Phila. Click here for complete list of her performances.
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” (The Philadelphia Inquirer) and winner of the “Best of Philly Award 2008” (Philadelphia Magazine) just celebrated its 27 Year Anniversary in September. She is also curating and hosting other Salons around the country including Aspen, Phoenix, NY and Wynnewood, PA.
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.
