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Contact Susan J. Clearman:
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Susan J. Clearman’s compositions are fresh, evocative, colorful, rhythmic, lyrical, sometimes mischievous.\u00a0 She strives to produce works that engage listeners’ imaginations, whatever their background.\u00a0 She cites influences such as Rachmaninoff, Gershwin, Ravel, Prokofieff, Bernstein, Joplin and international traditional music.<\/p>\n

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Artist Gwenn E. Kennedy’s take on The Pepperoni Rag<\/em>.<\/p><\/div>\n

Ms. Clearman has been commissioned to write music for such celebrations as the installation of a new pipe organ, a community choir Christmas concert, an ordination, and a 100th Birthday.\u00a0 Her works have been performed from New York to Atlanta; from Juneau, Alaska to the British Isles.<\/p>\n

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St. Anne Church, Rochester, NY, commissioned Susan J. Clearman to compose Springs in the Desert for the new Konzelman pipe organ<\/p><\/div>\n

Ms. Clearman’s eclectic tastes in classical, ethnic and popular styles are\u00a0 reflected in her compositions, both vocal and instrumental. Springs in the Desert<\/i><\/a>, for solo organ, features Gregorian chant, Klezmer and Celtic elements. It was commissioned by St. Anne Church of Rochester, New York and premiered by organist Brink Bush. Two other organists later performed\u00a0the piece in Atlanta during the 1996 Olympics.<\/p>\n

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“Drop Thy Still Dews of Quietness”<\/i><\/a> for unison chorus and piano has been performed in churches from Massachusetts to Georgia to Iona, Scotland and was read at the 2003 national convention of the American Choral Directors Association [NY, NY]. In<\/p>\n

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Bessarabica performance, Longy School, Cambridge, MA ~ Karen Oosterbaan-violin, Daniel Plane-‘cello, Todd Brunel-clarinet, Trisha Craig–flute<\/p><\/div>\n

2006, Episcopal Divinity School’s [Cambridge, MA] commencement week festivities featured Ms. Clearman’s Temple Slip Jig & Reel<\/i><\/span> for organ and bodhran, Bessarabica<\/i><\/span> for mixed string and wind quartet, and “Breathing Space”<\/em><\/span> for soprano, horn and piano. Her piano piece The Pepperoni Rag<\/i><\/a>, has pleased crowds live in Boston and on radio in Atlanta.<\/p>\n

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Choral Guild of Atlanta director James Bohart and composer Susan J. Clearman after the choir’s performance of “Drop Thy Still Dews of Quietness.”<\/p><\/div>\n

The Longy Chamber Orchestra of Cambridge, MA read her orchestral work-in-progress, The New Incarnation<\/i> in 2007. Other works include the Cornycopia Rag<\/i><\/a> and the hispanic Nostalg\u00eda<\/i><\/a> for piano; the modal O Jerusalem, Jerusalem<\/i><\/a>, for violin and piano; Spirited Away by the Four Winds<\/i><\/a> for woodwind quartet; “He is Gentle and Lowly in Heart”<\/i><\/a> for mixed chorus and organ, “Welcome All Wonders in One Sight”<\/em><\/span> for mixed chorus and piano, and “Prayer of the Living Stones”<\/em><\/span> for mixed chorus, children’s choir and organ. Ms. Clearman has been a member of ASCAP since 1993.<\/p>\n

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Bessarabica rehearsal, Longy School, Cambridge, MA Karen Oosterbaan-violin, Daniel Plane-‘cello, Todd Brunel-clarinet, Trisha Craig–flute<\/p><\/div>\n

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