Claire Chase

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{{Infobox musical artist

| name = Claire Chase

| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1978}}

| birth_place = Leucadia, California, U.S.

| genre = Classical

| instrument = Flute

| associated_acts = International Contemporary Ensemble

}}

Claire Chase (born 1978) is a soloist, collaborative artist, curator and advocate for new and experimental music.{{Cite web|title=Claire Chase|url=https://dacaseminar.fas.harvard.edu/people/claire-chase|access-date=2021-04-05|website=dacaseminar.fas.harvard.edu|language=en}} Chase has won the Avery Fisher Prize, which recognizes musical excellence, vision, and leadership. In 2012, Chase was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship—the so-called "genius" award.

Early life and education

Chase was born in 1978 and grew up in Leucadia, California. She made her solo debut with the San Diego Symphony at age 14 in 1992.

While attending Oberlin College, where she studied with Michel Debost, she received the Theodore Presser Foundation Award in 1999 which she used to commission new compositions for the flute.Chipman, Michael (September 1999). [http://www.oberlin.edu/con/bkstage/199909/chase_claire.html "Claire Chase Wins 1999 Presser Music Award, Launches Project to Expand Flute Repertory in 2000"]. Backstage Pass (Oberlin College). Retrieved 3 December 2012. She received her B.M. from Oberlin in 2001.Concert Artists Guild. [http://www.concertartists.org/chaseclaire_bio.htm Artist Profile: Clare Chase] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130104110925/http://www.concertartists.org/chaseclaire_bio.htm |date=2013-01-04 }}. Retrieved 3 December 2012.

Career

After graduating from Oberlin, Chase founded the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) in 2001, and was its Executive/Artistic Director until 2017.{{Cite news|last=Cooper|first=Michael|date=2016-10-16|title=ICE's Founder, Claire Chase, Will Relinquish Leadership Role|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/17/arts/music/ices-founder-claire-chase-will-relinquish-leadership-role.html|access-date=2021-04-05|issn=0362-4331}}Smith, Steve (2 September 2007). [https://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/02/arts/music/02smit.html "Concert Itinerary That Includes Dreamland"]. The New York Times. Retrieved 3 December 2012.

After winning first prize in the Concert Artists Guild competition in 2008, she made her Carnegie Hall debut in 2010 at the Weill Recital Hall.Smith, Steve (23 April 2010). [https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/24/arts/music/24claire.html "Making a Flute Do Tricks in Pieces Old and New"]. The New York Times. Retrieved 3 December 2012.

Chase has premiered over 100 new solo works for the flute, incorporating extended techniques and electro-acoustic elements. Her first solo album, Aliento was released in 2009 and was one of Time Out Chicago's Top 10 Classical Albums of 2009.Armbrust, Doyle (30 December 2009). [http://timeoutchicago.com/music-nightlife/opera-classical/72589/top-classical-2009 "Top ten classical albums of 2009"]. Time Out Chicago. Retrieved 3 December 2012. Chase has performed world-wide as a soloist and chamber musician in venues including (Le) Poisson Rouge, Miller Theatre,Kozinn, Allan (25 November 2009). [https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/26/arts/music/26saariaho.html "Finnish Composer Bursts Some of Her Own Myths"]. The New York Times. Retrieved 3 December 2012. and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C., the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City.

Over the past decade, Claire Chase has premiered of hundreds of new works for the flute in performances throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia, and she has championed new music throughout the world by building organizations, forming alliances, pioneering commissioning initiatives, and supporting educational programs that reach new audiences.{{Cite web|title=Claire Chase|url=https://artlab.harvard.edu/Claire-Chase|access-date=2021-04-05|website=artlab.harvard.edu|language=en}}

She began "Density 2036" in 2014, a 22-year project to commission a significant body of new music for the flute, culminating in the one-hundredth anniversary of Edgard Varèse's 1936 "Density 21.5".{{cite web|title=Claire Chase: density 2036, parts i - iii|url=http://thekitchen.org/event/claire-chase-density-2036-parts-i-iii|website=The Kitchen|accessdate=3 August 2017|archive-date=4 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170804014030/http://thekitchen.org/event/claire-chase-density-2036-parts-i-iii|url-status=dead}}

In the fall of 2017 Chase was appointed Professor of the Practice in the Music Department at Harvard University.{{cite news|last1=Radsken|first1=Jill|title=Esperanza Spalding, Claire Chase join music faculty|url=https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/07/jazz-star-esperanza-spalding-flutist-claire-chase-join-harvard-faculty/|accessdate=3 August 2017|work=Harvard Gazette|date=26 July 2017}}

Chase held the 2022–23 Richard and Barbara Debs Composer's Chair at Carnegie Hall.{{cite web | title=The Richard and Barbara Debs Composer's Chair | website=Carnegie Hall | url=https://www.carnegiehall.org/Events/Highlights/Debs-Composers-Chair | access-date=29 April 2022}}

Discography

  • Density 2036: parts v 2017-2018 (2020, Corbett vs. Dempsey Records){{Cite news|date=2020-12-31|title=5 Things to Do This New Year's Weekend|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/31/arts/things-to-do-weekend-coronavirus.html|access-date=2021-04-05|issn=0362-4331}}
  • Density 2036: parts iv 2016 (2020, Corbett vs. Dempsey Records)
  • Density 2036: parts iii 2015 (2020, Corbett vs. Dempsey Records)
  • Density 2036: parts i & ii 2013-2104 (2020, Corbett vs. Dempsey Records)
  • Density (2013, New Focus Recordings){{Cite web|url=https://www.wqxr.org/|title=WQXR | New York's Classical Music Radio Station|website=WQXR|accessdate=Sep 15, 2020}}
  • Terrestre (2012, New Focus Recordings)Recording details in this section are sourced from [http://clairechase.net/recordings/ clairechase.net: Recordings]. Retrieved 3 December 2012.Giovetti, Olivia (9 April 2012). [http://www.wqxr.org/#!/articles/q2-album-week/2012/apr/09/cest-si-bon-claire-chases-terrestre/ "C'est si bon on Claire Chase's Terrestre, Q2 Music Album of the Week"]. WQXR. Retrieved 3 December 2012.
  • Died in the Wool (2011, Samadhi Sound)
  • Bright and Hollow Sky (2011, New Focus Recordings)
  • Undersong (2011, Mode Records)
  • Aliento (2009, New Focus Recordings)
  • Enter Houses Of (2009, Tzadik Records)
  • Complete Crumb Edition, Vol. 12 (2008, Bridge Records)

With John Zorn

Awards

  • 2017 Avery Fisher Prize[https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/26/arts/music/listen-to-claire-chase-the-flutist-who-just-won-100000.html Listen to Claire Chase, the Flutist Who Just Won $100,000] by Michael Cooper. The New York Times, 26 Apr 2017. Retrieved 2017-08-03.
  • 2012 MacArthur FellowshipMacArthur Foundation (2012). [https://www.macfound.org/fellows/860/ MacArthur Fellows: Claire Chase]. Retrieved 3 December 2012.
  • 2010 Carlos Surinach PrizeBMI Foundation (4 May 2010). [http://www.bmi.com/foundation/news/claire_chase_and_evan_johnson_named_carlos_surinach_award_winners "Claire Chase and Evan Johnson Named Carlos Surinach Award Winners"]. Retrieved 3 December 2012.
  • 2008 First Prize Concert Artists Guild Competition
  • 2001 First Prize National Young Artist Competition
  • 1999 Theodore Presser Foundation Award
  • 1996 Presidential Scholar Award from the National Foundation for Advancement in the ArtsInternational Contemporary Ensemble. [http://iceorg.org/about/artist/chase Claire Chase, flute, Executive Director] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131002050642/http://iceorg.org/about/artist/chase |date=2013-10-02 }}. Retrieved 3 December 2012.
  • 1995 First Prize California Young Artists Competition

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