Jordan Chase, DMA

Biography

Composer Jordan Chase writes music that is innovative and appealing to diverse audiences and performers alike. His music is described as “lyrical, rhythmically jagged and stark in majesty” (The Boston Musical Intelligencer), drawing upon his life experiences to forge a freedom of expression and depth of meaning. Chase’s music has been performed, recorded, and published by ensembles and artists throughout the United States and abroad.

Recent projects include The Earth Holds Ghosts, winner of the Atlanta Contemporary Music Collective Call for Scores; Fields of Ice for solo guitar, and Hollow Winds, which will appear on his debut album. He recently had his composition Broken Spectre premiered by earspace ensemble, and his piece under the aspect of eternity has been performed extensively by Matchstick Percussion at various colleges throughout Maryland, at the Kennedy Center, and at the Stellenbosch International Chamber Music Festival in South Africa.

Previous highlights include the premiere of Hollow Winds, commissioned by the Maryland State Arts Council, as well as the release of music videos for and when I arrive (solo cello) and The Taste for Nothingness (chamber ensemble). Chase was featured as the resident composer at the James Stroud International Youth Guitar Competition at the Cleveland Institute of Music, where Toward a Copper Sea was premiered, and at the Rhode Island Recording Ensemble (University of Rhode Island), which included his composition Emanations on their album Radiant Dance. He has also received multiple commissions from the Baltimore Classical Guitar Society, including the guitar quartet Between Earth and Sky and the solo Nevermore, which won second place in the International Boston Guitarfest Composition Competition.

Currently based in Baltimore, MD, Chase teaches private composition lessons at Levine Music and serves as an Assistant Teaching Professor at Towson University. He also works as an engraver, orchestrator, and arranger. Chase received his DMA in composition from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, where he studied with Felipe Lara and Michael Hersch.