Claire Chase, Katinka Kleijn, Cory Smythe, and Seth Parker Woods premiering Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s Ubique at Zankel Hall in May 2023.
Photo: Jennifer Taylor.
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CELEBRATING TERRY RILEY'S 90TH
Roulette
509 Atlantic Avenue
(Entrance on the Corner of Third Avenue; Accessible Entrance on Atlantic Ave)
Brooklyn, NY 11217
Roulette celebrates the occasion of Terry Riley’s 90th birthday with two major works, generative open scores written 60 years apart. To begin the night, Claire Chase gives a solo performance of “The Holy Liftoff” (2024), premiered as part of her Density 2036 project. The 21st NYC IN C, our city’s longest-running annual presentation of Riley’s legendary “In C” (1964), will follow. Organized by musicians Nick Hallett and Zach Layton, the concert brings together a diverse cross-section of the instrumentalists, improvisers, composers, technologists, and vocalists that make up the experimental music ecosystem.
Both a livestream of the performance and student discount tickets are available! More info HERE.
CHASE AT DARMSTADT
Claire Chase returns as a festival artist and flute mentor to the Darmstädter Ferienkurse (IMD Darmstädt) 2025 in Germany! Highlights include workshop performances with the festival students and the world premiere of “The divine thawing of the core” by Chaya Czernowin on August 1st, 2025. This piece was written for Claire on contrabass flute and she will be joined by a small chamber orchestra. To read more about Czernowin’s piece, visit her website HERE under “2025 Premiers.”
More information about the festival and full program can be found HERE.
2025 SALT BAY CHAMBERFEST: CHASE PLAYS TERRY RILEY
TUESDAY, AUG. 12:
7:30pm @ Lincoln Theater in Damariscotta, ME
Pre-concert lecture at 6:30pm
WEDNESDAY, AUG. 13:
7:30pm @ Strand Theatre in Rockland, ME
Claire Chase, flute
Aaron Boyd, violin
Kyu-Young Kim, violin
Jonathan Vinocour, viola
Wilhelmina Smith, cello
Ayano Kataoka, percussion
PROGRAM
FIGGIS-VIZUETA: New work (SBC commission)
DEBUSSY: String Quartet in G minor
RILEY: “The Holy Liftoff”
Join Claire Chase and fellow superstars of the chamber music world for a week of wonderful performances at the 2025 Salt Bay Chamberfest!
Chase will perform Terry Riley’s “The Holy Liftoff” on both Tuesday, Aug. 12th and Wednesday, Aug. 13th at 7:30pm during the festival. More info available HERE and tickets available HERE.
"THE DIVINE THAWING OF THE CORE" U.S. PREMIERE
Mary Flagler Cary Hall
DiMenna Center for Classical Music
450 W 37th Street
New York, NY 10018
Claire Chase and Talea Ensemble present the U.S. premiere of Chaya Czernowin’s “the divine thawing of the core” (2025). This work was co-commissioned by The Earle Brown Music Foundation Charitable Trust, Darmstadt Summer Course, and the Lucerne Festival supported by Foundation Pierre Boulez.
Tickets go on sale June 2, 2025 and more information can be found HERE.
OJAI 2025: TERRY RILEY WORLD PREMIERE
Libbey Bowl
Ojai, CA
Claire Chase, flute
Festival Artists
Steven Schick, conductor
PROGRAM
Leilehua LANZILOTTI ko’u inoa
Pauline OLIVEROS The Witness
Tania LEÓN Singsong (World premiere of solo version)
Terry RILEY Pulsefield 3 (World premiere)
An exuberant all-company 2025 Festival finale includes music by Leilehua Lanzilotti, Pauline Oliveros’s The Witness, and the world premiere of a new version of Tania León’s Singsong adapted for solo flute. The Festival culminates in the world premiere of Terry Riley’s Pulsefield 3, in a joyous celebration of the composer’s 90th birthday.
More info HERE.
OJAI 2025: SUSIE IBARRA
Libbey Bowl
Ojai, CA
Wu Wei, sheng
Alex Peh, piano
Claire Chase, flute
Susie Ibarra and Levy Lorenzo, percussion
JACK Quartet
PROGRAM
Modern Medieval (arr. Christopher Otto and Austin Wulliman)
Susie IBARRA New work for sheng and percussion (World premiere)
Tania LEÓN Ritual
Susie IBARRA Sky Islands (West Coast premiere)
The JACK Quartet explores Modern/Medieval with music from the 14th to 17th centuries, renewed for contemporary performance by composers/JACK violinists Christopher Otto and Austin Wulliman. The program is followed by the West Coast premiere of 2025 Pulitzer Prize in Music winner Susie Ibarra’s Sky Islands, evoking a unique environment of the elevated rain forests in the Philippines with the interlocking rhythms and melodies of Philippine Northern-style bamboo, gong, and flute music, performed on new sound sculptures of gong metals.
More info HERE.
OJAI 2025: HOW FORESTS THINK
LIbbey Bowl
Ojai, CA
Wu Wei, sheng
Kathryn Schulmeister, bass
Joshua Rubin, clarinet
Claire Chase, flute
Alex Peh, piano
JACK Quartet
Festival Artists
Steven Schick, conductor
PROGRAM
JS BACH Chorale Prelude, Vor deinen Thron, BWV 668
Sofia GUBAIDULINA Meditation on the Bach chorale Vor deinen Thron, BWV 668
Tania LEÓN Hechizos
Liza LIM How Forests Think
Music by Bach, Sofia Gubaidulina (inspired by Bach) and Tania León, precede the West Coast premiere of the large-scale How Forests Think by Liza Lim, a work inspired by the imagery of ancient forests as vibrant, symbiotic communities that, as the composer writes, “that nourish the old connections and keep a song going. One might think of a forest as a choir or certainly as an ensemble. Stories, dreams, and thoughts inhabit multiple forms in a living matrix.
More info HERE.
OJAI 2025: CRAIG TABORN
NOTE: There are TWO performances of this program: June 7 at 3:30PM and June 8 at 2:30PM
Greenberg Center, Ojai Valley School
Ojai, CA
Claire Chase, flute
Joshua Rubin, clarinet
Craig Taborn, piano
Susie Ibarra, percussion
Levy Lorenzo, electronics
Craig TABORN Busy Griefs and Endangered Charms
A concert centered on the West Coast premiere of Busy Griefs and Endangered Charms for flute, clarinet, cello, piano and electronics by the endlessly inventive composer-pianist Craig Taborn. The work is inspired by a dream in which plants awake, blossom, grow and change as the dreamer walks through a garden.
More info HERE.
OJAI 2025: "CHAMBERS"
Libbey Bowl
Ojai, CA
Claire Chase, flute
Katinka Kleijn, Seth Parker Woods, cello
Cory Smythe, piano
JACK Quartet
PROGRAM
Marcos BALTER Chambers
Leilehua LANZILOTTI ahupua’a
Anna THORVALDSDOTTIR Ubique (West Coast premiere)
A program centered on the West Coast premiere of Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s Ubique for flute, two cellos, piano and electronics, a work of enigmatic lyricism by a composer who is inspired by the “musical qualities of nature.”
More info HERE.
OJAI 2025: MORNING MEDITATION
Ojai Meadows Preserve
Ojai, CA
Claire Chase and Michael Matsuno, flute
M.A. Tiesenga, saxophone
Joshua Rubin, clarinet
Susie Ibarra, percussion
PROGRAM
Susie IBARRA Sunbird (West Coast premiere)
Susie IBARRA Kolubrí
Pauline OLIVEROS Horse Sings From Cloud
This program is free and open to the public!
Special thanks to the City of Ojai Arts Commission for supporting this event.
OJAI 2025: THE HOLY LIFTOFF
Libbey Bowl
Ojai, CA
Leilehua Lanzilotti, viola
Jay Campbell, Katinka Kleijn, Seth Parker Woods, cello
Claire Chase, flute
JACK Quartet
USC Cello Ensemble
Steven Schick, conductor
PROGRAM
Leilehua LANZILOTTI ko’u inoa
Sofia GUBAIDULINA Mirage: The Dancing Sun
Julius EASTMAN The Holy Presence of Joan d’Arc
Terry RILEY The Holy Liftoff (Realization by Samuel Clay Birmaher)
Music for a “chorus of cellos” by Julius Eastman precede “The Holy Liftoff,” the most recent work by pioneering American composer Terry Riley, played in Ojai by Claire Chase and the JACK Quartet. Written as a series of musical sketches and brilliantly colored drawings, an exuberant and energized work represents a culmination for Riley, who says “I feel like this piece sums up a lot of things I’ve worked for.”
More info HERE.
OJAI 2025: SEX MAGIC
Greenberg Center, Ojai Valley School
Ojai, CA
Claire Chase, flute
Levy Lorenzo, electronics
Nicholas Houfek, lighting
PROGRAM
Liza LIM Sex Magic (West Coast premiere)
In its West Coast premiere, Australian composer Liza Lim’s Density 2036 contribution “Sex Magic” for solo contrabass flute and electronics centers Friday afternoon. Inspired by Claire Chase’s towering contrabass flute (Bertha), “Sex Magic” evokes and celebrates women’s power across time and cultures, evoking the giant bass flutes of Papua New Guinea and the Australian didgeridoo in a work that ritually moves across three altars, creating a mystical, mesmerizing evocation of both the present and the timeless past.
More info HERE.
OJAI 2025: PAN
Libbey Bowl
Ojai, CA
Claire Chase, flute
Wu Wei, sheng
M.A. Tiesenga, electronic hurdy-gurdy
Susie Ibarra and Steven Schick, percussion
PROGRAM
Marcos BALTER Alone
Annea LOCKWOOD bayou-borne
Marcos BALTER Pan
A festive opening night with Annea Lockwood’s “Bayou-Borne,” an affectionate tribute to Pauline Oliveros, then culminating in Marcos Balter’s “Pan,” an already iconic work from Claire Chase’s epic Density 2036 project. “Pan” is a deeply affecting work that explores the life and death of the mythical Greek goat-god Pan, written for flute, electronics, and a community of musicians, telling the tale of this weaver of melodies and a guardian of the wilderness – true to the Ojai spirit!
More info HERE.
THE LISTENING GARDEN WITH CLAIRE CHASE
Light and Space
915 East Ojai Avenue
Ojai, CA 93023
The Ojai Music Festival partners with The Listening Garden for an evening of immersive sonic exploration led by 2025 Music Director and flutist Claire Chase. The event invites attendees to participate in the legacy of experimental and electronic music pioneer, Pauline Oliveros.
The evening will include bento-style Japanese dinner available for purchase, as well as complimentary tea ceremony & wine.
Early Bird tickets are $37/person. Limited seating available. More information and tickets available HERE.
CHASE AT TANGLEWOOD
Studio E, Linde Center for Music and Learning
3 W Hawthorne Rd
Lenox, MA 01240
Recently described by the New York Times as “the North Star of her instrument’s ever-expanding universe,” musician, interdisciplinary artist, and educator Claire Chase presents a concert of works from her 24-year commissioning initiative, Density 2036, part of the Density Arts family of programs. Performing selections of new works by composers like Terry Riley, Pauline Oliveros, Anna Thorvalsdottir, Vijay Iyer, Marcos Balter, Sarah Hennies, Suzanne Ferrin, George Lewis, and so many more, Chase is cultivating a new body of repertory for the flute each year until the 100th anniversary of Edgard Varèse’s groundbreaking 1936 flute solo, Density 21.5. In this spirit, Density Arts will commission, produce, and record a new program of flute music every year until 2036.
More info & tickets HERE.
AUSTRALIA PREMIERE: "SEX MAGIC"
Primrose Potter Salon
Melbourne Recital Centre, 31 Sturt Street,
Melbourne, Victoria
3006 Australia
Experience Liza Lim’s thrilling “Sex Magic” for flutes, electronics, and kinetic percussion performed by Claire Chase for the Australian premiere.
More info & tickets HERE.
"SEX MAGIC" AUSTRALIA PREMIERE
Primrose Potter Salon
Melbourne Recital Centre, 31 Sturt Street,
Melbourne, Victoria
3006 Australia
Experience Liza Lim’s thrilling “Sex Magic” for flutes, electronics, and kinetic percussion performed by Claire Chase for the Australian premiere.
More info & tickets HERE.
MIVOS QUARTET AND CHASE AT BIG EARS FESTIVAL
Big Ears Festival
Knoxville, TN
PERFORMANCE TIME TBD
Join Claire Chase as she performs Terry Riley’s “The Holy Liftoff” with the Mivos Quartet at Big Ears 2025! The festival will take place March 27-30, 2025 and “The Holy Liftoff” performance will be on March 29.
More info & tickets HERE.
TERRY RILEY & CLAIRE CHASE IN TOKYO
Haretara Sora ni Mame Maite
20-20 Daikanyamacho, Shibuya
Tokyo 150-0034, Japan
More info HERE.
HIDEJIRO HONJO & CLAIRE CHASE RECITAL: TOKYO
Hakuju Hall
1 Chome-37-5 Tomigaya
Shibuya, Tokyo 151-0063
Claire Chase, flute
Hidejiro Honjo, shamisen
PROGRAM
Fujikura Dai: Sodehichite (2023)
Felipe Lara: Meditation and Calligraphy (2014)
Miura Hiroya: Dango "Waga Mono" (2024) [Japan premiere]
Kuwabara Yu: Wind Dharani long version (2016/2024-25) [World premiere]
Vijay Iyer: Jiva (2018)
Fujikura Dai: neo (Otoo) (2017)
Fujikura Dai: Lila (2015)
Honjo Hidetaro: Yukien Jodo (1991)
Fujikura Dai: Reizei for alto flute and shamisen (2021) [Japan premiere]
More info HERE.
FUJIKURA DOUBLE CONCERTO IN HYOGO
Grand Hall at Hyogo Performing Arts Center
2-22 Takamatsucho
Nishinomiya, Hyogo 663-8204, Japan
Claire Chase, flute, and Mayumi Kanagawa, violin, perform Dai Fujikura’s Double Concerto with the City of Kyoto Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Chief Conductor Nodoka Okisawa.
More info HERE.
FUJIKURA DOUBLE CONCERTO IN KYOTO
Kyoto Concert Hall
Kyoto, Japan
Claire Chase, flute
Mayumi Kanagawa, violin
City of Kyoto Symphony
PROGRAM
Dai Fujikura
Double Concerto for Flute, Violin, and Orchestra
Richard Strauss
Ein Heldenleben, op. 40
More info & tickets HERE.
CHASE & FRIENDS PLAY FUJIKURA
The Phillips Collection
1600 21st Street, NW
Washington, D.C.
Claire Chase and friends perform works by Dai Fujikura - program TBD.
More info HERE.
CHASE AND OWLS AT 92NY
Buttenwieser Hall at The Arnold Center
The 92nd Street Y
1395 Lexington Ave
New York, NY 10128
Owls perform their 92NY debut alongside Claire Chase, featuring the music of Terry Riley and arrangements by Owls.
More info & tickets HERE.
BACH TO FUJIKURA @ BELGIUM
DE SINGEL
Desguinlei 25
2018 Antwerp
Blauwe zaal, Belgium
Claire Chase, flute
Leila Josefowicz, violin
Ensemble Resonanz
PROGRAM
Dai Fujikura
Double Concerto for Flute, Violin, and Orchestra
Johann Sebastian Bach
Triple Concerto for harpsichord, flute, violin and orchestra, BWV 1044
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Concerto for violin and orchestra in d, opus posth.
Patricia Kopatsjinskaja
Suite of Works by Pauline Oliveros, Leoš Janáček, John Cage, and others
More info & tickets HERE.
*Violinist Patricia Kopatsjinskaja has been replaced by Leila Josefowicz
CONCERTO FEATURE @ GERMANY
Elbphilharmonie
Großer Saal
Hamburg, Germany
Leila Josefowicz, violin
Claire Chase, flute
Ensemble Resonanz
PROGRAM
Dai Fujikura (*1977)
Double Concerto
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Triple Concerto for Flute, Violin and Harpsichord in A minor, BWV 1044
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847)
String Quartet in B Major, op. 87
More info & tickets HERE.
*Violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja has been replaced by Leila Josefowicz
FUJIKURA DOUBLE CONCERTO @ SWITZERLAND
Musikkollegium Winterthur
Rychenbergstrasse 94
CH-8400 Winterthur
Violinist Leila Josefowicz* and flutist Claire Chase present Dai Fujikura’s Double Concerto for Flute, Violin, and Orchestra with Musikkollegium Winterthur in Switzerland for TWO concerts January 15-16, 2025.
More info & tickets HERE.
*Violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja has been replaced by Leila Josefowicz
DAI FUJIKURA DOUBLE CONCERTO WORLD PREMIERE
Concertgebouwplein 10
1071 LN
Amsterdam
Violinist Akika Suwanai* and flutist Claire Chase bring you the world premiere of Dai Fujikura’s Double Concerto for Flute, Violin, and Orchestra with the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest.
More info & tickets HERE.
*Violinist Akika Suwanai has replaced Patricia Kopatchinskaja
CHASE RESIDENCY @ HERMITAGE ARTIST RETREAT
**UPDATE DEC. 1, 2024: THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO VENUE DAMAGE FROM HURRICANE HELENE. PLEASE CONSIDER DONATING TO SUPPORT THE REPAIR EFFORTS HERE.
Selby Gardens Historic Spanish Point
401 N. Tamiami Trail
Osprey, FL 34229
Join Claire as she takes up her residency at The Hermitage Artist Retreat Dec. 5-20, 2024! Her residency opens with a performance on Thursday, Dec. 5 at Selby Gardens.
Hermitage Fellow Claire Chase helped launch the inaugural season of “Hermitage Sunsets @ Selby Gardens.” Now as the series celebrates its fifth anniversary, Chase returns to share new work in this immensely popular series. An internationally acclaimed composer and performer, Claire Chase has been described by The New York Times as “the most important flutist of our time.” She is a pioneer in the world of contemporary music with projects such as “Density 2036,” a 24-year commissioning project that aims to reimagine the literature of the modern flute. A MacArthur Fellow and the first ever flutist to receive the Avery Fisher Award from Lincoln Center, Chase also served on the Hermitage’s Curatorial Council. Surrounded by the idyllic beauty of Selby Gardens, don’t miss hearing the latest from this iconic performer in this popular Hermitage’s series.
More info & tickets HERE.
CELEBRATING PAULINE OLIVEROS IN LOS ANGELES
The Ebell of Los Angeles
741 South Lucerne Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90005
Celebrate the legacy of legendary composer, accordionist, and Quantum Listening/Deep Listening theorist Pauline Oliveros at The Ebell of Los Angeles with an extraordinary program curated by musician and 2012 MacArthur Fellow Claire Chase.
This free, family-friendly event will blur the lines between listening, learning, and performing, celebrating Oliveros’s groundbreaking sonic investigations into the physical sciences, and the science of hearing and listening. Chase, joined by special guests, will lead the session, offering interactive opportunities for attendees and young people to listen to and perform several of Oliveros’s important works composed for open instrumentation and interpretation.
Audience participants will have access to AUMI (Adaptive Use Musical Instruments), enabling anyone of any age or ability to play musical phrases through movement and gestures.
A Day of Quantum Listening is part of Quantum Vibrations, organized by USC Professor and Chair in Cross-Cultural Communication, Vice Provost for the Arts, and 2016 MacArthur Fellow Josh Kun, as part of the celebrated region-wide Getty initiative PST ART: Art & Science Collide.
More info & tickets HERE.
"HOLY LIFTOFF!" @ MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM
Windhover Hall
700 N. Art Museum Dr.
Milwaukee, WI 53202
Extend your experience of Currents 39: LaToya M. Hobbs, Carving Out Time and Robert Longo: The Acceleration of History exhibitions with the Present Music concert “Holy Lift Off!,” a musical journey led by flutist Claire Chase in a concert featuring new, large-scale work by the legendary composer Terry Riley. Years in the making, this work sprang from the pages of Riley’s sketchbook, brimming with colorful drawings of angels, demons, and various mythologies where “all the energies rise up to a surreal skyscape.”
More info & tickets HERE.
DENSITY WORKS @ MCKNIGHT CENTER
The McKnight Center for the Performing Arts
2617 W. 6th Ave.
Stillwater, OK 74074
Recently described by The New York Times as “the North Star of her instrument’s ever-expanding universe” the interdisciplinary flutist and educator Claire Chase presents a concert from her 24-year initiative, Density 2036.
More info & tickets HERE.
"THE HOLY LIFTOFF" @ JUILLIARD
Rosemary and Meredith Willson Theater
The Juilliard School
155 W. 65th St.
New York, NY 10023
With Arnhold Creative Associate Claire Chase and Juilliard students
Arnhold Creative Associate Claire Chase and an ensemble of Juilliard students present Terry Riley's “The Holy Liftoff,” the most recent work of Density 2036, a multi-decade commissioning initiative launched by Chase in 2013.
More info & tickets HERE.