HarrisonParrott is delighted to announce exclusive representation of Claire Chase in Europe and Asia, and in association with James Egelhofer at First Chair Promotion in the US.
 
Claire Chase was the Artist in Residence at Aldeburgh Festival this year. Under the Festival’s Britten and America theme, Chase played Bernstein’s Halil with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra on 9 June, performed programmes from her Density project on 14 June and Feldman’s For Philip Guston on 16 June at sunrise. Claire Chase returns to the UK for the BBC Proms in August with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra performing Olga Neuwirth’s flute concerto Aello and again in January 2019 to the Philharmonia Orchestra’s ​‘Music of Today Series’ performing Dai Fujikura’s Flute Concerto, which is dedicated to Claire Chase, under Southbank Centre’s New Music International festival where Claire is the Featured Artist. Other engagements include dates in Germany and Korea.

Claire is a soloist, collaborative artist, curator and advocate for new and experimental music. 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 organisations, forming alliances, pioneering commissioning initiatives and supporting educational programs that reach new audiences. She was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2012, and in 2017 was awarded the Avery Fisher Prize. 
 
In 2014 Chase launched Density 2036, a 23-year commissioning project to create an entirely new body of repertory for flute between 2014 and 2036, the centenary of Edgard Varèse’s groundbreaking 1936 flute solo, Density 21.5. Each season as part of the project, Chase premieres an evening of new music, with pieces so far by composers including Du Yun, Vijay Iyer, George Lewis, Pauline Oliveros, and Matthias Pintscher, among many others. She will release world premiere recordings of all of the Density pieces in collaboration with Meyer Sound Laboratories in Berkeley, CA. In 2018 Chase created Pan in collaboration with the social-justice organisation Project&, the composer Marcos Balter and the director Douglas Fitch- a piece for flute, electronics and mass community participation in the form of a large ensemble of non-professional or trained players/​collaborators. 

A deeply committed educator, Chase was named Professor of the Practice in the Department of Music at Harvard University starting in 2017. She is also the co-artistic director, with her longtime collaborator Steven Schick, of the Summer Music Program at The Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in Canada. Chase founded the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) in 2001, described as the United States’ ​“foremost new-music ensemble” (The New Yorker), and is active as an ensemble member in ICE projects throughout the world. ICE has premiered more than 800 works since its inception and can be heard in dozens of recordings, as well as on its own online streaming video library of live performances, DigitiCE.