Event Title:

Organization:

  Concert

  San Francisco

Start Date:

  4/18/2026

End Date:

  4/18/2026

Start Time:

  7:30 PM

End Time:

  9:30 PM

Event Info: 

  Claire Chase is "the North Star of her instrument's ever-expanding universe," according to The New York Times, and "a rare combination of grace and guts" (Wall Street Journal). Density 2036 is her ambitious and far-reaching 24-year project to create a new body of flute repertory leading up to the 100th anniversary of composer Edgard Varese's seminal 1936 flute solo, Density 21.5. Her San Francisco Performances debut recital program reimagines music for solo flute.

Claire Chase is a musician, interdisciplinary artist, and educator. Passionately dedicated to the creation of new ecosystems for the music of our time, Chase has given the world premieres of hundreds of new works by a new generation of artists. She was the first flutist to be awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2012, and in 2017 was the first flutist to be awarded the Avery Fisher Prize for Classical Music from Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. Chase was the Richard and Barbara Debs Creative Chair at Carnegie Hall in the 2022-23 season, only the second time in that organization's history that the position has been given to a performing artist.

Program:
Density 2036

MARCOS BALTER: Alone
FELIPE LARA: Meditation and Calligraphy
SUSIE IBARRA: Sunbird
LIZA LIM: Throat-song from Sex Magic
MARCOS BALTER: Selections from Pan
TERRY RILEY: Pulsing Lifters (with Sarah Cahill, special guest) Selections from The Holy Liftoff (solo version)

https://sfperformances.org/performances/2526/claire-chase.html

Location:

  Herbst Theatre

Room:

Address:

  401 Van Ness Avenue

Phone:

  415-392-2545

City:

  San Francisco

State/Province:

  CA