Drawing from every corner of the soundworld, Eric Chasalow creates genre-defying music.
As mentor and long time arts advocate, he works tirelessly to nurture developing composers and encourage a community with the greatest respect for the arts and artists.
Part of the last generation of composers to work at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, Eric has received awards from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and two awards each from the Koussevitzky Music Foundation , Fromm Foundation at Harvard, and the American Academy of Arts & Letters.
Eric’s music has been commissioned and performed by numerous soloists and ensembles in the US and abroad including Talea Ensemble (New York), Ensemble Phoenix (Basel), California EAR Unit (Los Angeles), Boston Modern Orchestra Project, MusicaTrieze (Marseille), the Network For New Music (Philadelphia), Boston Musica Viva, Collage (Boston), The Portland Chamber Music Festival (Maine), and New York New Music Ensemble.
In 1996, together with Barbara Cassidy, he co-curated the Video Archive of Electroacoustic Music, an oral history collection now housed in the Library of Congress.
Eric is the Irving Fine Professor of Music at Brandeis University where he directs the Brandeis Electro-Acoustic Music Studio (BEAMS). He is a proud alumnus of Bates College, studied at New England Conservatory of Music, and earned the DMA from Columbia University, studying primarily with Mario Davidovsky.
The Eric Chasalow collection in the Library of Congress was established in 2009.