Andrea Clearfield
Clearfield creates deep, emotive musical languages that build cultural and artistic bridges. She has been praised by The New York Times for her “graceful tracery and lively, rhythmically vital writing,” the Philadelphia Inquirer for her “mastery with large choral and instrumental forces,” the Los Angeles Times for her “fluid and glistening orchestration,” and by Opera News for her “vivid and galvanizing” music of “timeless beauty.”
Clearfield’s works are performed widely in the U.S. and abroad. Among her works are twelve cantatas including one commissioned and premiered by The Philadelphia Orchestra. Recent works, including her choral cantata Tse Go La: At the Threshold of this Life, are inspired by Tibetan music fieldwork that she conducted in the Nepalese Himalaya. She was appointed the Steven R. Gerber Composer in Residence with the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia for their 2018-19 season, 2018 Angelfire Music Festival Composer-in-Residence and 2020-2022 Composer-in-Residence with National Concerts at Carnegie Hall. Her opera, MILA, Great Sorcerer, to libretto by Jean-Claude van Itallie and Lois Walden was presented at the acclaimed NYC Prototype Festival in January 2019.
Clearfield was awarded a 2016 Pew Fellowship in the Arts, two Independence Foundation Fellowship awards and fellowships at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center, American Academy in Rome, Yaddo, MacDowell Colony, Copland House, and the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation among others.
She received a D.M.A. in Composition from Temple University where she received the university-wide Presidential Fellowship. She served on the composition faculty at The University of the Arts from 1986 – 2011 and currently sits on the Board of Directors of the Recording Academy/Grammy’s Philadelphia Chapter.
As a performer, she played keyboards with the Relâche Ensemble for 25 years and had the great honor of performing with the Court of the Dalai Lama. A strong advocate for building community around the arts, she is founder and host of the renowned Salon featuring contemporary, classical, jazz, electronic, dance and world music since 1986.
More at www.andreaclearfield.com
Featured Works
Tse Go La (at the threshold of this life) — SATB and SSAA choruses, and chamber orchestra
Rabsong Shar (the eastern room of the palace) — soprano, chamber orchestra, and electronics
Convergence — viola and piano
Alleluia — SATB a cappella
Video
Alleluia for SATB chorus
Unremembered Wings
Poet of the Body and the Soul
Prayer to the Shechinah
Works Available for Purchase
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A Dream of Trees (2016)
for violin and double bassPerformance Score
$27.50 -
A Reminiscence Sing (2009, arr. 2010)
for soprano, clarinet, and pianoScore and Parts
$27.50 -
A Reminiscence Sing (2009 arr. 2010)
for soprano, soprano saxophone, and pianoScore and Parts
$27.50 -
A Reminiscence Sing (2009)
for soprano, oboe / English horn and string quintetScore and Parts
$40.00 -
After Bach (2014)
for flute duetPerformance Score
$20.00 -
Convergence (2008)
for viola and pianoScore and Parts
$30.00 -
Daughter of the Sea (2014)
for oboe and English hornPerformance Score
$37.50 -
Double Play (1999)
for percussion and pianoScore and Parts
$30.00 -
Dream Variations (choral score) (2008)
for SATB chorus, flute, viola, harp and organChoral Score
$9.00 -
Earth Door/Sky Door (2018)
for flute, piano, percussion and string quintetScore and Parts
$100.00 -
GLOW (2019)
for electric guitar and orchestraStudy Score
$55.00 -
Ha-Galgal (The Wheel) (2019)
for horn soloPerformance Score
$21.95 -
Into the Blue (choral score) (2008, rev. 2009)
for SATB chorus, flute, vibraphone and pianoChoral Score
$4.50 -
Into the Blue (full score and parts) (2008, rev. 2009)
for SATB chorus, flute, vibraphone and pianoScore and Parts
$20.00 -
Into the Falcon’s Eye (2003)
for 2 horns and pianoScore and Parts
$37.50 -
Into the Falcon’s Eye (2003)
for clarinet, horn, pianoScore and Parts
$37.50 -
L is for Laughter (2005)
for soprano, flute, cello and pianoScore and Parts
$25.00 -
Let Us Remember Spring (2021)
for soprano and pianoPiano/Vocal Score
$10.00 -
Love is a Place (2016)
for flute and pianoScore and Parts
$20.00 -
Prayer to the Shechinah (2020)
Poetry by Mirabai StarrChoral Score
for SATB chorus, cello, and piano
$4.50 -
Rhapsodie (2008)
for flute, harp and string trioScore and Parts
$45.00 -
River Melos (2014, arr. 2015)
for trombone and pianoScore and Parts
$27.50 -
Round for Three Muses (2017)
for percussion solo, with percussion trio and electronicsScore and Parts
$65.00 -
Sagitta (2014, rev. 2015)
for flute and guitarPerformance Score
$26.00 -
SAX TRAX (1997, rev. 2013)
for saxophone quartetScore and Parts
$26.00 -
Songs of the Wolf (1994)
for horn and pianoScore and Parts
$33.00 -
The Rim of Love (2005)
for soprano and pianoPiano/Vocal Score
$35.00 -
The Song of Hannah (2018)
for SATB chorus and organ (or piano)Choral Score
$4.50 -
This Arc Towards Justice (2013)
for soprano, alto saxophone and pianoScore and Parts
$40.00 -
Three Arias for Mezzo-Soprano and Piano from Women of Valor (2000)
for mezzo-soprano and pianoPiano/Vocal Score
$29.00 -
Three Arias for Soprano and Piano from Women of Valor (2000)
for soprano and pianoPiano/Vocal Score
$29.00 -
Trax (2000)
for marimba quartetScore and Parts
$26.00 -
TRAX (2002)
for octetStudy Score
$20.00 -
Tse Go La (alto flute and piano) (2012, rev. 2019)
for alto flute and pianoScore and Parts
$20.00 -
Tse Go La (flute and piano) (2012, rev. 2023)
for flute and pianoScore and Parts
$20.00 -
Unremembered Wings (2001 (rev. 2008))
for oboe and pianoScore and Parts
$29.00 -
Unremembered Wings (2001, arr. 2009)
for soprano saxophone and pianoScore and Parts
$29.00 -
Women of Valor (2000)
oratorio for soprano, mezzo-soprano (1 or 2), narrator and full orchestraPiano/Vocal Score
$75.00 -
Women of Valor (Version for Chamber Ensemble) (2000)
chamber version for soprano, mezzo-soprano (1 or 2), narrator, violin, percussion and pianoStudy Score
$90.00 -
You Bring Out the Doctor in Me (baritone) (2013)
for baritone and pianoPiano/Vocal Score
$15.00 -
You Bring Out the Doctor in Me (high tenor) (2013)
for high tenor and pianoPiano/Vocal Score
$15.00 -
You Bring Out the Doctor in Me (tenor) (2013)
for tenor and pianoPiano/Vocal Score
$15.00
