Scholarship and Biography

Eric Chasalow creates genre-defying music. As professor, and long time arts advocate, he works tirelessly to nurture developing composers to take part in a mutually supportive community with the greatest respect and ambition for the arts and for artists.

Links

Eric Chasalow papers, 1975-2010
Composer's website

Honors

Composers Fellowship
National Endowment for the Arts (United States, Washington D.C.) - NEA, 1983
MacDowell Colony Residency
MacDowell Colony (United States, Peterborough), 1984
Artist Fellowship
New York Foundation for the Arts (United States, Brooklyn) - NYFA, 1986-1987
MacDowell Colony Residency
MacDowell Colony (United States, Peterborough), 1986
Fellowship
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (United States, New York), 1986-1987
Charles Ives Fellowship
American Academy of Arts & Letters, 1986-1987
Commission
Fromm Music Foundation, 1993
International Society for Contemporary Music Prizes
International Society of Contemporary Music, 1987, 1994
G. Schirmer Young Americans Art Song Competition Winner for Rain Towards Morning
Wise Music Group, 1995
MacDowell Colony Residency
MacDowell Colony (United States, Peterborough), 1998
Award in Music
American Academy of Arts & Letters, 2003
Commission
Fromm Music Foundation, 2001
Distinguished Guest Composer
Composers Conference , 2005
Aaron Copland Award
Aaron Copland Fund for Music (United States, New York), 2004-2005
Koussevitzky Foundation in the Library of Congress Commission
Koussevitzky Music Foundation, 2005
Sylvia Goldstein Award for Flute Concerto: Three Love Poems
Aaron Copland Fund for Music (United States, New York), 2007
MacDowell Colony Residency
MacDowell Colony (United States, Peterborough), 2007
Eric Chasalow Collection Established
Library of Congress (United States, Washington D.C.), 2009
Commission for New York New Music Ensemble
Chamber Music America, 2010
Barlow Endowment Commission for Talea Ensemble
Brigham Young University (United States, Provo) - BYU, 2010
IBM Innovation Prize for BEAMS Marathon
IBM (United States, Armonk), 2011
Distinguished Guest Composer
Composers Conference , 2013
Bau Institute Composer Residency
Camargo Foundation (France, Cassis), 2014
MacDowell Colony Residency
MacDowell Colony (United States, Peterborough), 2019
Copland House Fellow
Aaron Copland Fund for Music (United States, New York), 2022
Bogliasco Foundation Fellow recipient of the Edward T. Cone Fellowship
Bogliasco Foundation (United States, New York), 2022
Artist in Residence
The Studios of Key West, 2022
Koussevitzky Foundation in the Library of Congress Commission
Koussevitzky Music Foundation, 2022

Organizational Affiliations

Irving G. Fine Professor of Music, Department of Music, Brandeis University

Board member, Composers Conference

Member, Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States

Member, International Computer Music Association

Education

Columbia University in the City of New York
D.M.A.
Columbia University in the City of New York
M.A.
Bates College
B.A.