She was the 2009 Grand Prize Winner of the Concert Artists Guild International Competition, and made her critically-acclaimed Carnegie Hall recital debut in 2010.Ĭhase founded the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) in 2001, described as the United States’ “foremost new-music ensemble” ( The New Yorker), where she currently serves as the co-artistic director in addition to playing over fifty concerts a year as an ensemble member. She was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2012.Ĭhase has released three celebrated solo albums, Aliento (2010), Terrestre (2012) and Density (2013), and in 2014 launched Density 2036, a 22-year commissioning project to create an entirely new body of repertory for solo flute between 20, the centenary of Edgard Varèse’s groundbreaking 1936 flute solo, Density 21.5. Over the past decade she has given the world premieres 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. Claire Chase is a soloist, collaborative artist, curator and advocate for new and experimental music.
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