Andy Clausen is a New York-based trombonist, composer, arranger, and educator. A sought-after touring and studio musician across genres, Andy has worked with artists including Joanna Newsom, Fleet Foxes, Jon Batiste, Common, Justin Vernon, Aaron Dessner, Feist, Sylvan Esso, Vieux Farka Touré, Celisse, John Zorn, Wynton Marsalis, Samora Pinderhughes, Dave Douglas, Haley Heynerickx, Caroline Shaw, Gabriel Kahane, Nico Muhly, and Conrad Tao. 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, and radio, 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. Andy is a graduate of The Juilliard School and in 2021 joined the faculty at The New School as an artist in residence and professor of trombone and composition. In 2023 Andy completed a seven-year tenure as Artistic Director for Jazz at New York Youth Symphony. In addition, Andy works with thousands of students each year through The Westerlies’ educational initiatives and residencies across the country.