Berklee College of Music - M.M.
Oberlin Conservatory - B.M.
Chase is a composer, drummer, and writer living in Brooklyn. His album, Have Know Want, was released on May 10, 2024 on Biophilia Records. His heroes include poets June Jordan and Victoria Chang, musicians Joni Mitchell and Maurice Ravel, and drummers Billy Hart and Terri Lyne Carrington. A 2022 MacDowell Fellow in Composition, his work has been recognized by ASCAP, Avaloch Farm, the Boulder County Arts Alliance, the Café Royale Cultural Foundation, the Escape to Create Residency, and South Arts. His band has toured across the United States and given master classes at Oberlin Conservatory, the University of Denver, and Yale University. In 2022, he released his debut album, Portrait Imperfect, which was named one of the Best New Albums of the Year by Downbeat Magazine. A fervent advocate of cross-disciplinary collaboration and exploration, he debuted Walking in the City, a project with poets from across Brooklyn, at National Sawdust in June 2023. He teaches a course, Poetics of Songs, that explores the relationship between songwriting and poetry for the community organization Brooklyn Poets. In Fall 2025, he will begin a PhD program in Ethnomusicology at NYU.
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