Chase Chandler

Chase Chandler is a composer, performer, and multimedia artist deeply rooted in contemporary classical music, improvisatory jazz, and collaborative electro-acoustic music. Having spent his formative years near the Southern California coast, his music seeks to capture waves of honest, natural expressions through melodically-driven harmonies, complex layering, and organic development.

In recent years, Chandler’s music has been performed internationally by the PHACE Ensemble, UNICAMP Percussion Ensemble, Eclipse Quartet, CSUF Percussion Ensemble, Saddleback Lab Band, Aperture Duo, Divan Consort, Duo Zonda, Bent Frequency, and Irvine Arditti from the Arditti Quartet. His music has also been featured in the Vienna Summer Music Festival, Charlotte New Music Festival, Impulse New Music Festival, 1:2:1 Music Intensives with Grammy-award winning cellist, Nick Photinos, a virtual reality-based premiere for Art Gate International, and an audiovisual installation commissioned and in collaboration with the artist Darcy Gerbarg for BRCvr 2021. His first contemporary string quartet album, Between the Far Spaces, was recently recorded by Esessions Strings and published in May 2021 under Luminarcanum Records.

Chandler led the PSYWE as principal trumpet in 2008 and 2009, won first place in POSA’s 8th Annual Vocal Competition in 2014, was awarded the Area Award for Graduate Composition at CSUF in 2017, and gained contemporary conducting experience through the Newgate Chamber Orchestra from 2016 to 2018.

After studying with Dr. Ken Walicki during his masters at Cal State University, Fullerton, Chandler joined the Music Honor Society, Pi Kappa Lambda, Beta Omega chapter and has since taught at CSUF and Saddleback Community College, studied privately with Dr. Justin Dello Joio from The Juilliard School, and has had lessons with Dr. Brandon Rolle, Dr. Lansing McLonskey, and Dr. Marcos Balter. Chandler works for Atlas Ocean Voyages, playing piano and performing for an international audience for their cruises in the Arctic and Antarctic.