Andy Clausen
Andy Clausen is a New York-based trombonist, composer, educator, and graduate of The Juilliard School. He is Artistic Director for Jazz at New York Youth Symphony and co-founder of acclaimed new music brass quartet, The Westerlies. An active collaborator across genres, Clausen has toured and/or recorded with Fleet Foxes, Common, Theo Bleckmann, Vieux Farke Toure, John Zorn, Dave Douglas, and The American Brass Quintet.
Recent performance highlights include Newport Jazz Festival, Newport Folk Festival, Coachella, Panorama, The Hollywood Bowl, Red Rocks, Merriweather Post Pavilion, Jazz At Lincoln Center, SF Jazz, Radio City Music Hall, and Celebrate Brooklyn. The New York Times has described his work as “sleek, dynamic large-group jazz, a whirl of dark-hued harmony and billowing rhythm...The intelligent sheen of Mr. Clausen’s writing was as striking as the composure of his peers...It was impressive, and not just by the yardstick of their age.”
His compositions have been performed by The Seattle Collaborative Orchestra, New York Youth Symphony Jazz Band, The Juilliard Jazz Orchestra, The Next Generation Jazz Orchestra, and Seattle Chamber Players. An active composer for film and television with numerous feature films to his credit, Clausen has been commissioned by The New York Times, Bloomberg TV, Carnegie Corporation, Dell, The Whitney Museum, and Freedom House and his scores appeared at the DocNYC Festival, Austin Film Festival, Reykjavik International Film Festival, and LA Shorts Fest.