Andy Clausen

Andy Clausen is a Brooklyn-based trombonist, composer, and educator. A sought-after collaborator across genres, Andy has performed, recorded, and arranged for artists including Joanna Newsome, Fleet Foxes, Jon Batiste, Common, Justin Vernon, Aaron Dessner, Feist, Sylvan Esso, Vieux Farka Touré, Celisse, John Zorn, Samora Pinderhughes, Haley Heynderickx, and Nico Muhly.

Andy is a founding member of The Westerlies, an acclaimed new music brass chamber ensemble. From Carnegie Hall to Coachella, The Westerlies navigate a wide-array of projects with the precision of a string quartet, the audacity of a rock band, and the charm of a family sing-along, creating music that is "folk-like and composerly, lovely and intellectually rigorous” -NPR.

In addition to his performance work, Andy is an active composer for film, television, radio, and advertising, contributing original music to NBC, MSNBC, Showtime, The Michelle Obama Podcast, PBS, NPR, The New York Times, Blue Chalk Media, The Whitney Museum, and Freedom House.

A graduate of The Juilliard School, Andy has served as Artistic Director for Jazz at New York Youth Symphony since 2016, and in 2021 joined the faculty of The New School as an Artist in Residence and professor of trombone and composition. In addition, Andy works with thousands of students each year through The Westerlies’ educational initiatives and residencies across the country.

Offstage, Andy loves cooking, biking, yoga, and seeing as much live music, theater, film, dance, comedy, and art as possible. He lives in Fort Greene, Brooklyn with his wife Rachel.