Composer in Residence

Andrea Clearfield is an award-winning composer, 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". Commissions include works for The Philadelphia Orchestra, the Los Angeles Master Chorale and Orchestra 2001. She has composed ten cantatas for voices and orchestra. Dr. Clearfield was the recipient of a Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome and recently awarded 2012 fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center and the Civitella Ranieri Foundation in Italy. She has been awarded fellowships at Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and is also the founder of the renowned Philadelphia Salon concert series now celebrating its 25th year.