Eric Chasalow is a composer, sound artist, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, teacher, and advisor to non-profits.  He is well known for works that combine instruments with electronic sound but has collaborated on a wide range of projects with artists including Stephanie Lamprea, Sharon Harms, Mari Kimura, Tony Arnold, Lucia Bova, Tim Brady, Bruno Schneider, Vicki Ray, The Lydian String Quartet, Talea Ensemble, Collage New Music, Musicatreize, New York New Music Ensemble, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, and many others. Current projects focus on collaboration to reimagine vocal traditions, especially engaging oral histories and environmental sound.

Eric Chasalow is Irving G. Fine Professor of Music at Brandeis University, and Director of BEAMS, the Brandeis Electro-Acoustic Music Studio. Until June 2021 he served as Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. A product of the famed Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, he holds the D.M.A. from Columbia University where his principal teacher was Mario Davidovsky and where he studied flute with Harvey Sollberger. Among his honors are awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, Koussevitzky Music Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Fromm Foundation at Harvard University, New York Foundation for the Arts, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His scores are available from Suspicious Motives Music, G. Schirmer, C.F. Peters, and Edition Bim (Switzerland) and recordings appear widely, including on New Focus Records, New World Records, ICMC, SEAMUS, and Suspicious Motives Records.

The Eric Chasalow collection in the Library of Congress was established in 2009. Additional information may be found at www.ericchasalow.com. For inquiries and to purchase scores, contact Black Tea Music. (blackteamusic.com).

Electroacoustic Music @ Eastman (EMuSE) builds on the strong tradition of the studio as a creative space in which technology empowers new paths of expression for compositional and performative imagination. EMuSE will foster musical expression occurring at the intersection of contemporary music composition, instrumental/vocal performance, and technology.