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
“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 composing an opera on the life of Milarepa to libretto by Jean Claude van Itallie and Lois Walden, commissioned by Gene Kaufman and Terry Eder for a NYC production. She is also working on commissions for the Arc Duo; Philadelphia Orchestra hornist Denise Tryon; Øystein Baadsvik, tuba, commissioned by Norwegian hornist Froydis Ree Wekre; the Pennsylvania Quintet for their 30 Year Anniversary and a work celebrating Dolce Suono’s 10 year anniversary for acclaimed flutists Mimi Stillman and Jeffrey Khaner, Principal Flute in the Philadelphia Orchestra. Her electroacoustic score in collaboration with filmmaker Quintan Ana Wikswo and Group Motion Dance Company, Califia, has had recent performances in Philadelphia and California. She was awarded 2014 fellowships at the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo, 2013 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. Click here for her 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) is celebrating 27 years but is currently facing an uncertain future. The owner will put the Salon house on the market in mid March. The Save the Salon team is looking for investors to purchase the house so that Andrea can continue to rent and the Salon can continue past this season. 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 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 in 2012 with subsequent performances in NYC, NJ and Austin, TX. Two 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.
