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==External Links==

*[http://clairechase.net Claire Chase's Website]
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Claire Chase is an American flutist, arts entrepreneur, and recent MacArthur Fellow based out of Brooklyn, NY.

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Early Life and Education

Claire 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, she received the Theodore Presser Foundation Award in 1999 which she used to commission new compositions for the flute. [1] In 2001 she got her B.M. from Oberlin College, where she studied with Michel Debost.[2]

Career

After graduating from Oberlin, Chase founded the International Contemporary Ensemble in 2001, and has been its Executive/Artistic Director ever since. 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.[3] So far, Chase has premiered over 100 new solo works for the flute, incorporating extended techniques and electro-acoustic elements.[2] Her first solo album, Aliento was released in 2009 and was one of TimeOut Chicago's Top 10 Classical Albums of 2009. [4] Chase has performed world-wide as a soloist and chamber musician in diverse venues including (Le) Poisson Rouge, Miller Theatre, 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, MA, the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland, El Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, Mexico, and other venues throughout Germany and Spain.[2]

Discography

  • Terrestre (2012, New Focus Recordings)
  • 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)[5]

Awards

References

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