Andrea Clearfield (b. Philadelphia, 1960) is an award winning American composer of concert music and her works are performed widely in the U.S. and abroad. She has been praised by The Philadelphia Inquirer for her “virtuosity”, “compositional wizardry” and “mastery with large choral and instrumental forces”, the New York Times for her “graceful tracery and lively, rhythmically vital writing”, and the Los Angeles Times for her “fluid and glistening” orchestration. Recent commissions include works for The Philadelphia Orchestra, The Debussy Trio and the Los Angeles Master Chorale, the Turtle Creek Chorale, the Mendelssohn Club, Orchestra 2001 and Network for New Music. Ms. Clearfield has composed seven large-scale cantatas with voices and orchestra as well as numerous works for soloists, chamber ensembles and dance. “And low to the lake falls home” for internationally acclaimed flutist Carol Wincenc with NY Philharmonic Principal players Cynthia Phelps and Nancy Allen was premiered at The Morgan Library in NYC on February 22, 2010 and her cantata, The Long Bright, had its West Coast premiere at Royce Hall with Grammy award winning soprano, Hila Plitmann on March 11, 2010.
Ms. Clearfield was recently awarded The American Academy in Rome Fellowship from the American Composers Forum, 2010 and has also been awarded fellowships at Yaddo, where she held the Aaron Copland Residency for an American Composer, the MacDowell Colony, Djerassi, Blue Mountain Center, Ucross, Ragdale, The Wurlitzer Foundation and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts among others. She has received grants and awards from ASCAP, the NEA, the American Music Center, the American Composers Forum, the International Alliance for Women in Music, the Independence Foundation, Leeway Foundation and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.
A native of Philadelphia, she received a D.M.A. in composition from Temple University where she was a two-time recipient of the John Heller Memorial Award for Excellence in Composition, and the first composer to receive the Presidential Fellowship. She serves on the composition faculty at The University of the Arts and is the host and founder of the Philadelphia Salon concert series, now completing its 23rd year and winner of the Best of Philadelphia Award, 2008.
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Andrea Clearfield (b. Philadelphia, 1960) is an award winning American composer of concert music and her works are performed widely in the U.S. and abroad. She has been praised by The Philadelphia Inquirer for her “virtuosity”, “compositional wizardry” and “mastery with large choral and instrumental forces”, the New York Times for her “graceful tracery and lively, rhythmically vital writing”, and the Los Angeles Times for her “fluid and glistening” orchestration. Recent commissions include works for The Philadelphia Orchestra, The Debussy Trio and the Los Angeles Master Chorale, the Turtle Creek Chorale, the Mendelssohn Club, Orchestra 2001 and Network for New Music. Ms. Clearfield has composed seven large-scale cantatas with voices and orchestra as well as numerous works for soloists, chamber ensembles and dance. “And low to the lake falls home” for internationally acclaimed flutist Carol Wincenc with NY Philharmonic Principal players Cynthia Phelps and Nancy Allen was premiered at The Morgan Library in NYC on February 22, 2010 and her cantata, The Long Bright, had its West Coast premiere at Royce Hall with Grammy award winning soprano, Hila Plitmann on March 11, 2010.
Ms. Clearfield was recently awarded The American Academy in Rome Fellowship from the American Composers Forum, 2010 and has also been awarded fellowships at Yaddo, where she held the Aaron Copland Residency for an American Composer, the MacDowell Colony, Djerassi, Blue Mountain Center, Ucross, Ragdale, The Wurlitzer Foundation and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts among others. She has received grants and awards from ASCAP, the NEA, the American Music Center, the American Composers Forum, the International Alliance for Women in Music, the Independence Foundation, Leeway Foundation and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.
A native of Philadelphia, she received a D.M.A. in composition from Temple University where she was a two-time recipient of the John Heller Memorial Award for Excellence in Composition, and the first composer to receive the Presidential Fellowship. She serves on the composition faculty at The University of the Arts and is the host and founder of the Philadelphia Salon concert series, now completing its 23rd year and winner of the Best of Philadelphia Award, 2008.
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