Sheree Clement, composer, studied at the Peabody Conservatory Preparatory Department and received a bachelor’s and master’s in music at The University of Michigan and a doctorate in musical arts from Columbia University in 1984. At Peabody, she studied piano, musicianship, and composition.
For Sheree, composing analog ‘tape’ music opened up new ways to consider timbre, envelope, and spatialization of sound in writing for live instruments. Clement’s works have been performed by the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, the Atlantic String Quartet, the Canyonlands Ensemble of Salt Lake City, Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston, and at the Composers Conference in Vermont.
Other credits include the University of Michigan, Kresge Hall at MIT, Oberlin Conservatory, Tulane University, Carnegie Hall, and the Tanglewood Music Center, among others. The League of Composers Orchestra premiered her work for chamber orchestra, Stories I Cannot Tell You, in May 2017. Another work, Swimming Upstream incorporats texts about water, the Androscoggin River, and migratory fish with field recordings. Her awards include the Goddard Leiberson Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Tanglewood Fellowship, a MacDowell Fellowship, and three composer fellowships at the Composers’ Conference.
Portrait by Tatiana Daubek
