Claire Chase

Flutist and educator Claire Chase is also known as an advocate for contemporary music and as a creator of new systems and places for its development. She has given the world premieres of at least 100 works and has commissioned many more. Chase is on the faculty at Harvard University. She has a substantial recording catalog that includes the 2025 album Anna Thorvaldsdottir: Ubique. Chase was born in 1978 in Encinitas on the southern California coast and grew up in its waterside Leucadia district. As a child, she dreamed of a career as a professional baseball player, but she sh...