Date & Time
Sunday, March 15, 2015 - 6:30pm
Location
Columbia University Faculty House
Faculty House at Columbia University
(Enter through Wien Courtyard, off 116th Street between Amsterdam Avenue and Morningside Drive)
New York, New York 10027
Claire Chase, guest artist, Flute Fair
Caley Monahon-Ward, sound engineer
Program
Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 565
Vermont Counterpoint
Pessoa
Luciform
Density 21.5
J. S. Bach (1685-1750)
arr. Salvatore Sciarrino (b. 1947)
Steve Reich (b. 1936)
Marcos Balter (b. 1974)
Mario Diaz de Leon (b. 1979)
Edgard Varèse (1883-1965)
Admission: NYFC members - $35
Non-member - $50
Student - $25
Non-flutist family member attending with full-time student - $5
Special teacher/student discount - $25 (teachers who pre-register themselves and
three or more full-time students)
Program subject to change.
Claire Chase's concert is part of the NYFC 2015 Flute Fair. For information on the Fair, click here.
Claire Chase is a 2012 MacArthur Fellow, is a soloist, collaborative artist, and activist for new music. Over the past decade she has given the world premieres of over 100 new works for flute, many of them tailor-made for her. In 2014 she began Density 2036, a project to commission, premiere and record an entirely new program of pieces for flute every year until 2036, the 100th anniversary of the eponymous and seminal piece by Varese. Also in the 2014-15 season, Chase is music directing and playing as soloist in a series of performances of Salvatore Sciarrino's Il cerchio tagliato dei suoni for 4 flute soloists and 100 flute “migranti”.
Chase has performed throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia, including debuts last season in Berlin, Frankfurt, Vienna, Paris, London, Sao Paolo and Guangzhou. She has released three solo albums, Aliento (2010), Terrestre (2012) and Density (2013). In 2014, she was selected as an inaugural Fellow of Project&, with which she will several new works exploring the relationship between language, music and social interaction over the next several years.
Chase was First Prize Winner in the 2008 Concert Artists Guild International Competition. She co-founded the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) in 2001 and serves as the organization’s Artistic Director and CEO in addition to playing over fifty concerts a year as an ensemble member. ICE has premiered more than 600 works since its inception and pioneered a new artist-driven organizational model that earned the company a Trailblazer Award from the American Music Center in 2010. Chase was also honored with Crain’s Business “40 under 40” Award in 2013.
In 2013, Chase founded The Pnea Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the advancement of the flute and its repertoire in the 21st century through commissions, community engagement, cross-cultural and interdisciplinary collaborations and advocacy. She lives in Brooklyn. www.clairechase.net
Read Jayn Rosenfeld's March 2015 NYFC Newsletter interview of Claire Chase here.
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