The indefatigable Chase - she’s also a founder of the International Contemporary Ensemble and a 2012 MacArthur Fellow - has just released her third CD, titled “Density.” On Saturday night at the Atlas Performing Arts Center, she put on a riveting performance of the music from that disc: a 75-minute tour de force that showed Chase to be among the most electrifying flutists on the planet - and showed the flute as an instrument whose possibilities have only begun to be explored.Ĭhase tossed out the usual concert conventions, performing alone - accompanied only by electronics or her own pre-recorded flute tracks - and dressed near-invisibly on an almost dark stage, playing the entire program as a highly amplified and uninterrupted whole. Does the flute have a more interesting champion right now than Claire Chase? At 35, this New York-based virtuoso has carved out a key role for herself in contemporary music, commissioning and performing a range of new works for flute that have brought much-needed fire to the repertoire.
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