Andrea Clearfield

[1] She was raised in an artistic family and began studying music at a young age, playing piano, flute and timpani and developing an interest in a broad range of genres.

[2] Since 1986, Clearfield has been the founder and host of the Salon concert series in Philadelphia, featuring contemporary, classical, jazz, world, folk, rock, and electronic music alongside dance, spoken word, and multimedia art forms.

Clearfield writes in a wide range of genres encompassing opera, orchestral, choral, chamber, dance, and multimedia, including a number of large-scale cantatas.

In her 2012 cantata, Tse Go La (At the threshold of this life), she included Tibetan melodies gathered during her travels to northern Nepal, which she undertook to record and preserve the region's indigenous music.

Clearfield's prolific output for vocal, orchestral, chamber, and other genres is published by Boosey & Hawkes, See-A-Dot, G. Schirmer, Jomar Press and International Opus.