Chase is a composer, drummer, and writer living in Brooklyn. His new album, Have Know Want, will be released on May 10, 2024 on Biophilia Records.

A 2022 MacDowell Fellow in Composition, his work has been recognized by ASCAP, Avaloch Farm, the Boulder County Arts Alliance, the Café Royale Cultural Foundation, the Escape to Create Residency, and South Arts. His band, Perennials, has toured across the United States and given master classes at Oberlin Conservatory, the University of Denver, and Yale University. In 2022, he released his debut album, Portrait Imperfect, which was named one of the Best New Albums of the Year by Downbeat Magazine.

A fervent advocate of cross-disciplinary collaboration and exploration, he debuted Walking in the City, a project with poets from across Brooklyn, at National Sawdust in June 2023. Earlier that year, he organized a Biophilia Records stage at the Winter Jazz Festival, where he performed with his ensemble.

Perennials will continue to tour in the United States and Europe throughout 2024.

Currently Reading –

The Doloriad by Missouri Williams

Recently Read –

Dawn by Octavia Butler

Bound By Creativity: How Contemporary Art Is Created and Judged by Hannah Wohl

August 9 – Fog by Kathryn Scanlan

Near to the Wild Heart by Clarice Lispector

Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino

The Body Keeps The Score by Bessel van der Kolk

Cosmopolitanism by Kwame Anthony Appiah

Torpor by Chris Kraus

In the Meantime: Temporality and Cultural Politics by Sarah Sharma

The Practice of Everyday Life by Michael de Certeau

Florida by Lauren Groff

Happening by Annie Ernaux & Bluets by Maggie Nelson

Dear Memory by Victoria Chang

The Body’s Question by Tracy K. Smith

Stag's Leap by Sharon Olds