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ANDREA CLEARFIELD—COMP_OSER
<br /> 400 South Sydenham Street
<br /> Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19146
<br /> 215 893 0127(h) 484 4318376(c)
<br /> www.andreaclearficid.com
<br /> Andrea Clearfield(b.Philadelphia, 1960)is an award winning American composer of music for orchestra,chorus,
<br /> chamber ensembles,dance and multi-media collaborations.She has been praised by the New York Times for her
<br /> "graceful tracery and lively,rhythmically vital writing",the Philadelphia Inquirer for her"virtuosity","compositional
<br /> wizardry"and"mastery with large choral and instrumental forces",the L.A.Times for her"fluid and glistening
<br /> orchestration"and Opera News for her works of"timeless beauty".Her works are performed widely in the U.S.and
<br /> abroad.Commissions include works for The Philadelphia Orchestra,The Debussy Trio and the Los Angeles Master
<br /> Chorale,Carol Wincenc,the Turtle Creek Chorale,the Mendelssohn Club,Orchestra 2001 and Network for New Music.
<br /> She is currently composing an opera to libretto by Jean Claude van Itallie and Lois Walden,commissioned by Gene
<br /> Kaufman and Terry Eder.She is also composing chamber and choral works for the Grand Rapids Women's Chorus;
<br /> Pennsylvania Girlchoir;Philadelphia Orchestra hornist Denise Tryon;Norwegian homist Froydis Ree Wekre,Flute and
<br /> Guitar Arc Duo;Oboe and English Horn Duo Agosto;Susquehanna University.
<br /> She has composed ten cantatas for voices and orchestra:Her recent cantata,Tse Go La(At the threshold of this life),co-
<br /> commissioned by the Mendelssohn Club and the Pennsylvania Girlchoir with the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia was
<br /> premiered April 29,2012 in Philadelphia with subsequent performances in NYC,NJ and Austin,Tx.The work,for double
<br /> chorus,electronics and chamber orchestra,is inspired by her field research in the restricted,remote Himalayan region of
<br /> Lo Monthang,Nepal documenting Tibetan music.Recent premieres include "and low to the lake falls home"
<br /> commissioned by internationally acclaimed flutist,Carol Wincenc with New York Philharmonic principal players Cynthia
<br /> Phelps and Nancy Allen and premiered at the Morgan Library,NYC.Her Women of Valor cantata on the women of the
<br /> Bible has been the subject of a story that was nationally broadcast on NPR'S "All Things Considered".Her cantata,Kabo
<br /> Omowale,commissioned and premiered by The Philadelphia Orchestra in 2008,had its Midwestern premiere with the St.
<br /> Louis Symphony at Powell Hall in 2012.
<br /> Dr.Clearfield was awarded international residencies at The American Academy in Rome,the Rockefeller Foundation's
<br /> Bellagio Center and the Civitella Ranieri Foundation in Italy,Moulin a Nef in Auvillar,France and Fundacion Valparaiso
<br /> residency in Spain.Other awards include Yaddo,MacDowell Colony,Djerassi,Blue Mountain Center,Helene Wurlitzer
<br /> Foundation of New Mexico,Montalvo,Ucross,Virginia Center for the Creative Arts,Ragdale,I-Park,Millay,Kimmel-
<br /> Harding Center,Banff Center in Canada,Tyrone Guthrie Center in Ireland and Oberpfalzer Kunstlerhaus in Germany
<br /> among others.She has recently been guest composer at the Rimsky Korsakov Conservatory in St.Petersburg,Russia,the
<br /> University of Texas at Austin,the University of Chicago and the College of William and Mary.She has received grants
<br /> and awards from numerous organizations including ASCAP,the NEA,American Music Center,American Composers
<br /> Forum,Meet the Composer,International Alliance for Women in Music,Independence Foundation,Leeway Foundation
<br /> and Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.
<br /> A native of Philadelphia,she received a D.M.A.in composition from Temple University where she was a two time
<br /> recipient of the John Heller Memorial Award for Excellence in Composition and the first composer to receive the
<br /> prestigious University-wide Presidential Fellowship.She received an M.M.in Piano from the Philadelphia College of the
<br /> Performing Arts(now University of the Arts) where she was a student of Susan Starr and a B.A.in Music from
<br /> Muhlenberg College where she was awarded Summa Cum Lauda and Phi Beta Kappa honors,and first prize in
<br /> performance and musicianship.She served as Adjunct Assistant Professor at The University of the Arts teaching
<br /> composition and interdisciplinary arts from 1986-2011,and is the pianist in the contemporary music ensemble,Relache.
<br /> Now celebrating its 27th year,Clearfield is also the founder and host of the renowned Philadelphia Salon concert series,
<br /> featuring contemporary,classical,jazz,electronic,multimedia and world music and winner Philadelphia Magazine's 2008
<br /> "Best of Philadelphia"award. Since her Salon celebrated its 25"'year,she has been creating,curating and hosting Salons
<br /> around the country.More at www.andreaclearfield.com
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