Andrea Clearfield (b. Philadelphia, 1960) is an award winning American composer of music for orchestra, chorus, chamber ensembles, dance and multi-media collaborations. She has been praised by the New York Times for her “graceful tracery and lively, rhythmically vital writing”, the Philadelphia Inquirer for her “virtuosity”, “compositional wizardry” and “mastery with large choral and instrumental forces” and by the L.A. Times for her “fluid and glistening orchestration”. Her works are performed widely in the U.S. and abroad. Commissions include works for The Philadelphia Orchestra, The Debussy Trio and the Los Angeles Master Chorale, Carol Wincenc, the Turtle Creek Chorale, the Mendelssohn Club, Orchestra 2001 and Network for New Music.
She has composed nine cantatas for voices and orchestra and is currently composing a new cantata, Tse Go La (At the threshold of this life), commissioned by the Mendelssohn Club and the Pennsylvania Girlchoir for premiere on April 29. 2012. Recent premieres include “and low to the lake falls home” commissioned by internationally acclaimed flutist, Carol Wincenc with New York Philharmonic principal players Cynthia Phelps and Nancy Allen at the Morgan Library, NYC, and Lung-Ta and Kawa Ma Gyur, chamber works inspired by her recent treks documenting the Tibetan music in the restricted Himalayan region of Lo Monthang, Nepal, commissioned and premiered by Network for New Music.
Dr. Clearfield was awarded The American Academy in Rome fellowship from the American Composers Forum, 2010. She was recently awarded 2012 fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center and the Civitella Ranieri Foundation in Italy, and a Fundación Valparaiso residency in Spain. She was invited as guest composer at the XI International Conservatory Week Festival from the Rimsky Korsakov Conservatory in St. Petersburg, Russia in October, 2011. She has also been the recipient of fellowships at Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, Djerassi, Blue Mountain Center, The Wurlitzer Foundation, Ucross, Ragdale, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts among others. She has received grants and awards from numerous organizations including ASCAP, the NEA, American Music Center, American Composers Forum, International Alliance for Women in Music, Independence Foundation, Leeway Foundation and 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 prestigious Presidential Fellowship. She serves on the faculty at The University of the Arts where she teaches composition and interdisciplinary arts and is the pianist in the contemporary music ensemble, Relâche. Now celebrating its 25th year, Clearfield is also the founder and host of the renowned Philadelphia Salon concert series, featuring contemporary, classical, jazz, electronic, multimedia and world music and winner Philadelphia Magazine’s 2008 “Best of Philadelphia” award. More at www.andreaclearfield.com
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Andrea Clearfield (b. 1960) is an award-winning American composer of music for orchestra, chorus, chamber ensembles, dance, and multimedia collaborations. She has been praised by the New York Times for her “graceful tracery and lively, rhythmically vital writing”, the Philadelphia Inquirer for her “compositional wizardry” and “mastery with large choral and instrumental forces” and by the L.A. Times for her “fluid and glistening orchestration”. Her works are performed widely in the U.S. and abroad. Commissions include works for The Philadelphia Orchestra, Carol Wincenc, The Debussy Trio, the Los Angeles Master Chorale, Turtle Creek Chorale, Mendelssohn Club, Orchestra 2001, and Network for New Music. She has composed nine cantatas for voices and orchestra and is currently composing a new cantata for the Mendelssohn Club and the Pennsylvania Girlchoir for premiere in April, 2012. Dr. Clearfield was the recipient of a Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome from the American Composers Forum, 2010 and was awarded 2012 fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center and the Civitella Ranieri Foundation in Italy and a Fundacion Valparaiso residency in Spain. She was invited to be a guest composer at the XI International Conservatory Week Festival in St. Petersburg, Russia in October, 2011. She has also been the recipient of fellowships at Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts among others. She has received grants and awards from numerous organizations including ASCAP, the NEA, American Music Center, American Composers Forum, International Alliance for Women in Music, Independence Foundation and Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. She has served on the composition faculty at The University of the Arts since 1986. Clearfield is also the founder and host of the renowned Philadelphia Salon concert series now celebrating its 25th year featuring contemporary, classical, jazz, electronic, dance, and world music and winner of Philadelphia Magazine’s 2008 “Best of Philadelphia” award. More at www.andreaclearfield.com.
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Andrea Clearfield (b. Philadelphia, 1960) is an award winning American composer of music for orchestra, chorus, chamber ensembles, dance and multi-media collaborations. She has been praised by the New York Times for her “graceful tracery and lively, rhythmically vital writing”, the Philadelphia Inquirer for her “virtuosity”, “compositional wizardry” and “mastery with large choral and instrumental forces” and by the L.A. Times for her “fluid and glistening orchestration”. Her works are performed widely in the U.S. and abroad. Commissions include works for The Philadelphia Orchestra, The Debussy Trio and the Los Angeles Master Chorale, Carol Wincenc, the Turtle Creek Chorale, the Mendelssohn Club, Orchestra 2001 and Network for New Music.
She has composed nine cantatas for voices and orchestra and is currently composing a new cantata, Tse Go La (At the threshold of this life), commissioned by the Mendelssohn Club and the Pennsylvania Girlchoir for premiere on April 29. 2012. Recent premieres include “and low to the lake falls home” commissioned by internationally acclaimed flutist, Carol Wincenc with New York Philharmonic principal players Cynthia Phelps and Nancy Allen at the Morgan Library, NYC, and Lung-Ta and Kawa Ma Gyur, chamber works inspired by her recent treks documenting the Tibetan music in the restricted Himalayan region of Lo Monthang, Nepal, commissioned and premiered by Network for New Music.
Dr. Clearfield was awarded The American Academy in Rome fellowship from the American Composers Forum, 2010. She was recently awarded 2012 fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center and the Civitella Ranieri Foundation in Italy, and a Fundación Valparaiso residency in Spain. She was invited as guest composer at the XI International Conservatory Week Festival from the Rimsky Korsakov Conservatory in St. Petersburg, Russia in October, 2011. She has also been the recipient of fellowships at Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, Djerassi, Blue Mountain Center, The Wurlitzer Foundation, Ucross, Ragdale, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts among others. She has received grants and awards from numerous organizations including ASCAP, the NEA, American Music Center, American Composers Forum, International Alliance for Women in Music, Independence Foundation, Leeway Foundation and 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 prestigious Presidential Fellowship. She serves on the faculty at The University of the Arts where she teaches composition and interdisciplinary arts and is the pianist in the contemporary music ensemble, Relâche. Now celebrating its 25th year, Clearfield is also the founder and host of the renowned Philadelphia Salon concert series, featuring contemporary, classical, jazz, electronic, multimedia and world music and winner Philadelphia Magazine’s 2008 “Best of Philadelphia” award. More at www.andreaclearfield.com
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Andrea Clearfield (b. 1960) is an award-winning American composer of music for orchestra, chorus, chamber ensembles, dance, and multimedia collaborations. She has been praised by the New York Times for her “graceful tracery and lively, rhythmically vital writing”, the Philadelphia Inquirer for her “compositional wizardry” and “mastery with large choral and instrumental forces” and by the L.A. Times for her “fluid and glistening orchestration”. Her works are performed widely in the U.S. and abroad. Commissions include works for The Philadelphia Orchestra, Carol Wincenc, The Debussy Trio, the Los Angeles Master Chorale, Turtle Creek Chorale, Mendelssohn Club, Orchestra 2001, and Network for New Music. She has composed nine cantatas for voices and orchestra and is currently composing a new cantata for the Mendelssohn Club and the Pennsylvania Girlchoir for premiere in April, 2012. Dr. Clearfield was the recipient of a Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome from the American Composers Forum, 2010 and was awarded 2012 fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center and the Civitella Ranieri Foundation in Italy and a Fundacion Valparaiso residency in Spain. She was invited to be a guest composer at the XI International Conservatory Week Festival in St. Petersburg, Russia in October, 2011. She has also been the recipient of fellowships at Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts among others. She has received grants and awards from numerous organizations including ASCAP, the NEA, American Music Center, American Composers Forum, International Alliance for Women in Music, Independence Foundation and Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. She has served on the composition faculty at The University of the Arts since 1986. Clearfield is also the founder and host of the renowned Philadelphia Salon concert series now celebrating its 25th year featuring contemporary, classical, jazz, electronic, dance, and world music and winner of Philadelphia Magazine’s 2008 “Best of Philadelphia” award. More at www.andreaclearfield.com.
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