Andrea Clearfield, composer

Born: 1960

Education: BA in Music from Muhlenberg College; MM in Piano from The University of the Arts; DMA in Composition from Temple University

Professional: resident at Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, the Ragdale Foundation, the Banff Centre, Blue Mountain Center, the Tyrone Guthrie Centre and the Ucross Foundation; served on the composition faculty of The University of the Arts

Awards: Theodore Front Prize for Chamber and Orchestral Music from the International Alliance for Women in Music; winner of the 2002 New Music Delaware Composition Competition; first prize in the American Jewish Music Festival 2000; Award for Outstanding Achievement from the American Composers Forum; International Alliance for Women in Music Nancy Van De Vate Prize, “Search For New Music” for her cantata On The Pulse of Morning; Presidential Fellowship recipient at Temple University; John Henry Heller, Jr. Memorial Award for Excellence in Composition

Compositions: The Shape of My Soul, The Rim of Love, L is for Laughter, The River of God, Into the Falcon’s Eye, Women of Valor Oratorio, Awake at Dawn, Timecycle, Urban Tracks, Spirit Island, Love Song, On the Pulse of Morning, Songs of the Wolf, Labyrinth, Winter Spirits, Fantasy, Into the Distance, Time and Space, In Memoriam, Diary of Justyna, Sea Trilogy, Foundations

On CD: Songs of the Wolf (Crystal Records), Into the Falcon's Eye (2L), Unremembered Wings (Crystal Records)