Official site of composer Andrea Clearfield. Biography, list of works with audio, score samples, reviews and program notes, photographs, upcoming performances.
Choral Cantata
Sanford Sylvan, baritone
Mendelssohn Club Chorus and The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia
Artistic Director, Alan Harler. Libretto by Ellen Frankel.
Also works by Jennifer Higdon and James Primosch Innova #806 Feb 28, 2012
SSAA Chorus, 2 Percussion, Piano
mirabai chorus, Sandra Snow, artistic director
Released February 3, 2023. Available on all streaming platforms. Listen on Apple Music.
Alto Flute and Guitar
Originally commissioned by Raya Gonen for soprano and piano. This arrangement for alto flute and guitar was created by the composer for Duo Sequenza and is included in this compilation CD released on September 9, 2022. Listen on Spotify. Learn more about Farlorn Alemenhere.
Horn and Piano
Commissioned by Froydis Ree Wekre. Recorded by Katie Johnson, Horn and Kirstin Ihde, Piano on Summit Records, #767, May 2020. Purchase at Summit Records here or on Amazon here.
Viola and Piano
Sheila Brown and Julie Hiromi Nishimura, featuring Convergence by Andrea Clearfield, released October 17, 2023 by the American Viola Society
Vocal quartet, shakuhachi, percussion, piano
Commissioned and recorded by Fourth Coast Ensemble with Michael Firman, John Corkill & Dana Brown. Libretto by Doreen Rao after Painting Peace by Kazuaki Tanahashi. Released October 8, 2021 Purchase here.
Violin concerto
On the CD “THREE TRIBUTES TO OUR PARENTS“, January, 2021 release, Innova Label, Gloria Justen, violin, Orchestra 2001, James Freeman, conductor. Also works by Kevin Puts and Gunther Schuller.
Treble choir, cello and piano
Recorded by mirabai, Sandra Snow, Artistic Director, poetry by Susan Windle. Blue Griffen Label. Released March 10, 2018 Purchase on Amazon here.
Flute, cello, piano trio American Canvas, Dolce Suono Trio, Mimi Stillman, flute/artistic director, Nathan Vickery, cello, Charles Abramovic, piano Innova #991, Released February 23, 2018
Oratorio
Hila Plitmann, soprano, Rinat Shaham, mezzo-soprano, Tova Feldshuh, narrator
Los Angeles Jewish Symphony, Noreen Green, Artistic Director
Poetry by contemporary women writers on stories of Biblical women. Information here. Albany Records, April 1, 2017 release. Order on Amazon here.
Three Songs for Oboe and Double Bass after Poems by Pablo Neruda
The Light Wraps You: New Music for Oboe
Michele Fiala & Friends
MSR Classics, MS1217 www.msrcd.com
Gaia (soprano, oboe, piano) & Reminscence (English horn and piano)
Buffalo Ballads: Music for Oboe and English Horn
Heidi C. Huseman-Dewally, oboe & English Horn
Jill Masters, soprano
John Mitton, piano
www.imaginemusicpublishing.com
Three Songs for Oboe and Double Bass after Poems by Pablo Neruda
CEROS
Froydis Ree Wekre and Lisa Ford, horns
Andrea Clearfield, piano www.2l.no
Songs of the Wolf
Froydis Ree Wekre, horn
Andrea Clearfield, piano
recorded in Norway, 1996
Crystal Records, CD 678 www.crystalrecords.com
Unremembered Wings
The Poetic Oboe
Andrea Gullickson, oboe
Karen Enns, Pianist
Crystal Records CD727 www.crystalrecords.com
Jocheved
JEWISH WOMEN IN SONG…A CELEBRATION
Lesley Wolman
Produced by Michael Asher
Los Angeles, CA www.cdbaby.com
Jocheved
MAGDALENE AND THE OTHER MARY: SONGS OF HOLY WOMEN
SSAA chorus, flute, percussion, narrator, piano
The Women’s Sacred Music Project, Inc.
Church Publishing www.churchpublishing.org
Songs of the Wolf
IMAGES: Music for Horn and Piano by Women Composers
Cynthia Carr, horn
Julie Nishamura, piano www.arundelmusic.com
INTO THE BLUE
Into the Blue: SATB chorus, flute, vibraphone and piano
The Rainbow Chorale of Delaware. Purchase here.
Clearfield as Pianist
Featuring Marcel Bergmann, Richard Berent, Philipe Bodin, Andrea Clearfield, Paul Marienthal and Bill Frisell, Black Starlight Records www.amazon.com
Recordings as Composer
Choral Cantata
Sanford Sylvan, baritone
Mendelssohn Club Chorus and The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia
Artistic Director, Alan Harler. Libretto by Ellen Frankel.
Also works by Jennifer Higdon and James Primosch
Innova #806 Feb 28, 2012
Daughter of the Sea (From the Sea to the Stars)
Duo for Oboe and English Horn
Lindsay Flowers, Andrew Parker
Navona Records, Release Date: 25th Oct 2024. Catalogue No: NV6666
Home in Me (Body)
SSAA Chorus, 2 Percussion, Piano
mirabai chorus, Sandra Snow, artistic director
Released February 3, 2023. Available on all streaming platforms. Listen on Apple Music.
FARLORN ALEMEN (Losing Everybody)
Alto Flute and Guitar
Originally commissioned by Raya Gonen for soprano and piano. This arrangement for alto flute and guitar was created by the composer for Duo Sequenza and is included in this compilation CD released on September 9, 2022. Listen on Spotify. Learn more about Farlorn Alemen here.
LA LOBA
Horn and Piano
Commissioned by Froydis Ree Wekre. Recorded by Katie Johnson, Horn and Kirstin Ihde, Piano on Summit Records, #767, May 2020. Purchase at Summit Records here or on Amazon here.
Convergence
Viola and Piano
Sheila Brown and Julie Hiromi Nishimura, featuring Convergence by Andrea Clearfield and music by Prokofiev and Rochberg
Convergence
Viola and Piano
Sheila Brown and Julie Hiromi Nishimura, featuring Convergence by Andrea Clearfield, released October 17, 2023 by the American Viola Society
A Brush With Our Time on Human to Human CD
Vocal quartet, shakuhachi, percussion, piano
Commissioned and recorded by Fourth Coast Ensemble with Michael Firman, John Corkill & Dana Brown. Libretto by Doreen Rao after Painting Peace by Kazuaki Tanahashi. Released October 8, 2021
Purchase here.
Romanza
Violin concerto
On the CD “THREE TRIBUTES TO OUR PARENTS“, January, 2021 release, Innova Label, Gloria Justen, violin, Orchestra 2001, James Freeman, conductor. Also works by Kevin Puts and Gunther Schuller.
A Dream of Trees
Violin and Bass
Commissioned and recorded by Martha Walvoord and Jack Unzicker on “The Diaries of Adam and Eve”, Albany Label, November, 2019. Purchase here.
Martha Walvoord and Jack Unzicker, “A Dream of Trees”
The Kiss
Treble choir, cello and piano
Recorded by mirabai, Sandra Snow, Artistic Director, poetry by Susan Windle. Blue Griffen Label. Released March 10, 2018 Purchase on Amazon here.
Spirit Island
Flute, cello, piano trio
American Canvas, Dolce Suono Trio, Mimi Stillman, flute/artistic director, Nathan Vickery, cello, Charles Abramovic, piano
Innova #991, Released February 23, 2018
Women of Valor
Women of Valor
Albany Label
Oratorio
Hila Plitmann, soprano, Rinat Shaham, mezzo-soprano, Tova Feldshuh, narrator
Los Angeles Jewish Symphony, Noreen Green, Artistic Director
Poetry by contemporary women writers on stories of Biblical women. Information here.
Albany Records, April 1, 2017 release. Order on Amazon here.
Convergence
Viola and piano
Barbara Westphal, viola; Christian Ruvolo, piano
CD title Convergences, Bridge Records. Purchase on Amazon or here.
Bridge Records
River Melos
Low horn and piano
Denise Tryon, horn (The Philadelphia Orchestra); Julie Nishamura, piano
SO-LOW on BRIDGE Records, CD 9455
River Melos
Trombone and piano
Ava Ordman, Trombone
Blue Griffen Label, 2017
Unimagined Bridges
Native American flute and silver flute
Lisamarie McGrath, Native American Flute
Purchase on cdbaby.com
“Cliff” from The Rim of Love
Duos and Trios from Five Centuries
Philmore Ensemble
The Light Wraps You: New Music for Oboe
Michele Fiala & Friends
MSR Classics, MS1217
www.msrcd.com
Buffalo Ballads: Music for Oboe and English Horn
Heidi C. Huseman-Dewally, oboe & English Horn
Jill Masters, soprano
John Mitton, piano
www.imaginemusicpublishing.com
“It Takes Two…”
Vecchione/Erdahl Duo
Centaur Records, CRC 2942
www.centaurrecords.com
CEROS
Froydis Ree Wekre and Lisa Ford, horns
Andrea Clearfield, piano
www.2l.no
Froydis Ree Wekre, horn
Andrea Clearfield, piano
recorded in Norway, 1996
Crystal Records, CD 678
www.crystalrecords.com
The Poetic Oboe
Andrea Gullickson, oboe
Karen Enns, Pianist
Crystal Records CD727
www.crystalrecords.com
JEWISH WOMEN IN SONG…A CELEBRATION
Lesley Wolman
Produced by Michael Asher
Los Angeles, CA
www.cdbaby.com
MAGDALENE AND THE OTHER MARY: SONGS OF HOLY WOMEN
SSAA chorus, flute, percussion, narrator, piano
The Women’s Sacred Music Project, Inc.
Church Publishing
www.churchpublishing.org
IMAGES: Music for Horn and Piano by Women Composers
Cynthia Carr, horn
Julie Nishamura, piano
www.arundelmusic.com
INTO THE BLUE
Into the Blue: SATB chorus, flute, vibraphone and piano
The Rainbow Chorale of Delaware. Purchase here.
USING OUR VOICES: Luther College Nordic Choir
http://www.singers.com
Recordings As Performer
Clearfield as Pianist
Meyer Media, MM08010
www.Relache.org
Clearfield as Pianist
Meyer Media, MM06004
www.Relache.org
Clearfield as Pianist
Featuring Marcel Bergmann, Richard Berent, Philipe Bodin, Andrea Clearfield, Paul Marienthal and Bill Frisell, Black Starlight Records
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Harry Partch
Clearfield on Chromolodian
Tomato Label, R270390, 1989
Listen on Youtube
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Clearfield as Pianist
Into the Falcon’s Eye
Froydis Ree Wekre and Lisa Ford, horns
www.2l.no
Clearfield as Pianist
Froydis Ree Wekre, horn
Crystal Records, CD678
www.crystalrecords.com
Clearfield as Pianist
Arkay Records, AR6110
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Clearfield as Pianist, arrangments
Sprout Records, JS91-05
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Clearfield as Pianist, arrangments
Sprout Records, JS86-03
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Clearfield as Pianist, arrangments
Sprout Records, JS94-06
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Clearfield, Voice
Arkay Records, AR6145
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Clearfield, Pianist
D’Blue Records
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