BIOGRAPHY As a Composer Updated Dec. 2020 Chase Chandler (b. 1991) composes with a unique combination of beautiful color-timbres, fearless counterpoint, and organic musical development, drawing inspiration by challenging traditional melodic emphasis with functional dramatic texture and rhythmic integrity. With a strong vocal performance background and a passion for honest Read more…
Contemporary Between the Far Spaces (string quartet, 2020) chasechandler · Between the Far Spaces (string quartet)_____ “Amid its myriad flows and fusions, the history of the global occult reveals ‘hidden’ countercurrents of cultural connectivity between the far spaces of a world mysteriously conjoined.”* Movement one begins with a choral-like texture, Read more…
“Where Things Were” Newest solo album by Chase Chandler Recent events of 2020 shape this immersive, multi-genre album, where each of the 15 tracks act as heartfelt journal-entries that sway between hope and anxiety. Through the use of pop, folk, jazz/lo-fi, and contemporary composition, Where Things Were encapsulates a creative Read more…
Chase Chandler currently sings as a vocal soloist at the First Church of Christian Science, Newport and every Sunday as a cantor at the Mission Basilica San Juan Capistrano. Chase began his vocal career at Saddleback Community College under the guidance of Dr. Scott Farthing and performed the lead role, Nemorino, in Donizetti’s L’elisir Read more…
Newest original album now available! “Miles & Miles” out now starting March 1, 2019 Folky guitar and blues-inspired color tones help tell stories of finding one’s self, finding love, and finding passion for helping others. From a surfer boy in Southern California to an opera composer and award-winning musician, Chase Read more…
Chase Chandler began playing piano when he was 3-years-old and has experience in performing classical, jazz, pop, and new music. As a composer, Chase uses the piano as a tool to experiment as well as improvise compositional ideas. Though his performance experience on piano is more jazz oriented, Chase does Read more…
Chase Chandler’s first love was trumpet after choosing it in 4th grade when he lived in Santa Cruz, California. His trumpet career led him to play as a principle trumpet Pacific Symphony Youth Wind Ensemble (2008-09), co-principle/second in Saddleback’s WInd Ensemble (2009-11), co-principle in Concordia University, Irvine’s Wind Ensemble and Read more…