Recipient Information
Location
Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts
Project Title
The Global Garden Quartet @ Cuyamaca
Year of Award
2023
Grant or Fellowship
Jazz Road Creative Residencies Grant
Grant Amount
$7,200
Morrin—joined by Naseem Alatrash (cello), George Lernis (percussion), and Burcu Gulec (voice)—will rehearse and perform new compositions and jazz arrangements of traditional Turkish and Palestinian songs in San Diego, California. They will also perform a concert at Cuyamaca College, engaging with he Middle Eastern community there with music that blends Jazz and Arabic Folk music. This would occur in December 2023 and the proposed concert would be called: The Global Garden Quartet @ Cuyamaca.
About the Artist
Chase has garnered numerous accolades including four ASCAP Young Jazz Composer awards, ten DownBeat awards in composition, arranging and performance, five film scoring and composition awards through the Music Teachers’ Association of California and the Young Composers’ Guild, and was a Yamaha Young Performing Artist. He also received the 2012 ASCAP Jimmy Van Heusen award, the Monterey Jazz Festival’s Gerald Wilson award for his big band composition “Mumphis”, the Los Angeles Music Center Spotlight Award for jazz instrumentalist, and three awards from the National Foundation for the Arts (YoungArts) in classical composition, jazz composition and jazz keyboard.
Chase is currently involved in a number of projects with musicians in the Boston area which include Gapi, a duo ensemble with Korean Gayageum player DoYeon Kim whose self titled album was nominated for a National Korean Music Award, and a pedagogical, experiential-based music program called The Music Alliance Project, bringing jazz and classical musicians together. In 2016, Chase released a duo album called The Corn Knight with marimbist Yaniv Yacoby, exploring Irish folk, jazz, and classical idioms and later that year, released a trio album with bassist Johnny Chapman and drummer Jongkuk Kim called Turtle. Additionally, he was commissioned by the Louisville Orchestra to compose and write a piano concerto which he performed with the orchestra in April, 2016. His trio won the open combo division at Monterey’s Next Generation Jazz Festival, performed at the Monterey Jazz festival, and was showcased at the Jazz Education Network (JEN) conference multiple times.
Chase has held concerts and educational clinics at a number of world-renowned festivals including the Panama Jazz Festival, Monterey Jazz Festival, Reno Jazz Festival, Vail Jazz Festival, Bowdoin International Festival, and Centrum Jazz Festival. He has also performed at Catalina Jazz Club (Hollywood), Vitello’s (Los Angeles), Yoshi’s (San Francisco), Jazz Alley (Seattle); Jazz at Lincoln Center (New York), Dizzy’s, (San Diego), Harvard, NEC, and Berklee to name a few recent venues.
Chase graduated from Harvard May of 2015, earning a B.S. in Computer Science and a minor in Neurobiology, and from New England Conservatory (M.M.), 2016. Chase earned a second M.M. in piano performance at the Global Jazz Institute, Berklee College of Music, 2017. He has studied with teachers including Danilo Pérez, Vijay Iyer, Bruce Brubaker, Kati Agocs, John Patitucci, Terri Lyne Carrington, Joe Lovano, Fred Hersch, and Jason Moran.
Chase is also a proficient programmer, having conducted research at Cox Lab (Harvard) in computational neurobiology and software engineering at Facebook, NY.