Sheree Clement

Sheree Clement composes contemporary classical concert music. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, she moved to New York to complete a DMA in Music Composition at Columbia University and stayed to be part of the vibrant new music community.

Sheree started out composing for smaller chamber ensembles and for electronic media, writing music organized around linear, motivic material. A highlight from this time is her Chamber Concerto, for 17 players, which was premiered at the Tanglewood Music Festival, conducted by Kent Nagano, with subsequent performances by the Pro Arte Orchestra, conducted by Gunther Schuller, and a New York premiere by Speculum Musicae. It is available on New World Records. Another highlight is her Piano Preludes, a 45 minute cycle of virtuoso piano pieces recorded by Eliza Garth on Albany Records.

Over time her music acquired a lyrical, story-telling quality and more recently she’s been writing for voice including a chamber opera, Swimming Upstream, commissioned by APNM, with funding from the Queens Council on the Arts, and Table Manners, for two sopranos and silverware.

Her awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Goddard Leiberson Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Fellowships at the Tanglewood Festival, the Composers Conference, two Queens Council on the Arts New Works grants, and residencies at the MacDowell Colony and at Flushing Town Hall, in Flushing, NY, supported by Exploring the Metropolis.

Sheree was President of the League of Composers / ISCM 2011-14 and Executive Director of the New York New Music Ensemble from 2014-2017. She remains on the Board of Directors of both organizations and is a member of APNM and NYWC.