Photo by Aleks Karjaka
Recent and Upcoming
Violin Concerto (2021) Ancient Signs & Infamous Rhythms, 2025-26 premiere, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Miranda Cuckson, soloist. TBA
Fever Dream, New double concerto - alternate version for soloists and electronics - Talea Ensemble, 2025-26 season
Fever Dream, New double concerto for soprano and bassoon soloists Sharon Harms and Adrian Morejon with Talea Ensemble - Written For Talea, The Dimmena Center, NYC MARCH 28, 2025
Five Simic Songs for soprano and string quartet. Andrea Chenoweth Wells, soprano with the Ulysses String Quartet. The Shakespeare Concerts, Marsh Chapel at Boston University. OCT 18, 2024
Extinction for clarinet and fixed media, JongHyun AN, ICMC2024 Seoul, Korea JULY 13, 2024
The Wings That Bear The Night Away for violin and fixed media, Maja Cerar, NYCEMF, JUNE 2024
Alternative Facts for percussion quartet, Boston Conservatory Percussion Ensemble, APRIL 8, 2024
Muriel’s Songs (Koussevitzky commission) Sound Icon and Sharon Harms. premiere, March 16, 2024 Brandeis University
Due (Cinta)mani for piano and fixed media, Chen-Hui Jen, New Music Miami ISCM Festival, Miami Beach. FEB 21, 2024
Extinction for clarinet and fixed media, Ben Fingland with counter)induction, Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh. JAN 13, 2024
The Wings That Bear The Night Away for violin and fixed media, Julia Glenn, Brandeis University; NOV 2023, Splice Festival, Boston, MA OCT 2023
The Wings That Bear The Night Away for violin and fixed media, ICMC Shenzhen, China OCT 2023,
Quasi Troppo Veloce for violin solo, to Davy Rakowski for his 65th birthday, premiere Collage New Music, Brandeis University, OCT 1, 2023
Rounding The Keys for piano duo, in honor of the 200th anniversary of Key West. premiere Quattro Mani, UMass Amherst, SEPT. 21, 2023; Brandeis University, SEPT 22, 2023
Alternative Facts for percussion quartet, premiere, Talujon, The Aaron Copland School of Music, Queens NY, MAY 1, 2023
Extinction for clarinet and fixed media, Ben Fingland, University of Georgia, APRIL 22, 2023
Extinction for clarinet and fixed media, premiere, Ben Fingland, SEAMUS Conference, Dimenna Center NYC, APRIL 8, 2023
To The Edge and Back for violin and piano, premiere of violin version, Julia Glenn and Steve Beck, Brandeis University, MARCH 3, 2023
Second Quartet, premiere, The Lydian String Quartet, Brandeis University, DEC 10, 2022
Avant Gardner at Sulphur Studios, (art by Lisa D. Watson with sound art (premiere of What Shade of Green is Our Horizon), by Eric Chasalow; Savannah, GA SEPT. 1 - OCT. 22, 2022
As a Kind of Knowing for fixed media, Convergence Festival, Leicester, England, SEPT. 22, 2022
The Wings That Bear The Night Away for violin and fixed media, (premiere) Mari Kimura with Brightwork Newmusic, MONK Space, Los Angeles, CA OCT 25, 2022
Ghost Songs (premiere), Winsor Music, Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, Cambridge, MA OCT 28, 2022
Avant Gardner at Coastal Discovery Museum, Hilton Head, SC NOV. 1, 2022 - FEB. 5, 2023
Second Quartet (premiere), Lydian String Quartet at Brandeis University, DEC 10, 2022
Avant Gardner at Averitt Center For The Arts & Georgia Southern University’s IAB GALLERY, Statesboro, GA MAR. 9 - MAY 5, 2023
Eric has written a new Violin Concerto for Miranda Cuckson, - watch for the 2025 premiere with BMOP
a piano reduction suitable for performance may be purchased
Tim Page, Professor of Music and Journalism, University of Southern California, Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, 1997
“The critic and professor Edward Mendelson explored the concept of the "encyclopedic novel" -- a work of fiction that combines a full range of the knowledge and beliefs of a given culture into a narrative that goes far beyond storytelling. He named "The Divine Comedy," "Don Quixote," "Moby Dick," "Ulysses" and "Gravity's Rainbow" among several other encyclopedic novels -- books at once highly complicated and richly entertaining, melding fact, legend, parody, philosophy and everything else that fits into a creation that not only reflect their times and places but come close to epitomizing them.
I would nominate Eric Chasalow's "Ghosts of our Former Selves" as "encyclopedic music." I've been listening for several weeks now and compiling a list of aural "images." At the beginning, I am reminded of Stephin Merritt singing a particularly unusual, newly unearthed score from one Renaissance or another in an ancient cathedral. We go on to a fantastical riff on an old violin record sped up and scattered electronically. Suddenly a solo recorder plays "The Loveliest Night of the Year" (a melody from the 1880s that became a hit for Mario Lanza, later became "The George Washington Bridge Song" and. being out of copyright, was used extensively in films and commercials). Somehow it is all brand new although you've heard it a thousand times.. Eric studied with Mario Davidovsky and one can discern some of the lyricism, both eerie and expansive, that informed his teacher's electronic work. But then there is modern jazz, and something that sounds like a bleak lost track from the records David Bowie and Brian Eno made in Berlin, and then a vamp on old English folk songs.
And yet "Ghosts of our Former Selves" is all Eric. He is not touching all these bases to prove how smart he is or to bewilder us with sensory overdose, a la cinema verite. Rather, they are part of the world that made him and that he has now made into something all his own. And despite the fact that it was finished in the annus horribilis 2020, "Ghosts of our Former Selves" is often shimmeringly beautiful. For all of its digressions, it is a markedly linear piece, replete with beginnings, middles and ends -- and even some great tunes. This is music to sustain and challenge us during a time when we most need it. “
Discography
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Are You Radioactive, Pal?
Nine pieces, with performances by Philipp Stäudlin (alto saxophone) and Daniel Stepner (violin)
SEEK - Maurizio Grandinetti
Includes ‘Scuse Me (e. gtr and tape)
feather, breath, mirror
Over The Edge
Left to His Own Devices
Harmonic Constellations - Mari Kimura
Includes Scuffle and Snap
Interactions 2016
Includes Are You Radioactive, Pal?