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Chase Morrin
Chase Morrin is a pianist, composer, and educator who has released multiple acclaimed albums and been internationally recognized as a musician who pushes boundaries in jazz and classical music and has created innovative multi-cultural music projects advocating for human rights and equity. He is currently a professor at Berklee College of Music (The Global Jazz Institute) and New England Conservatory Preparatory School in Boston.
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.
Chase is the co-founder of the group, Ize Trio alongside Percussionist George Lernis and Cellist Naseem Alatrash. Their first album “The Global Suites” is critically acclaimed. They have performed at the United Nations, Panama Jazz Festival, and received the Jazz Road Residencies Grant, Live Arts Boston Grant, and Berklee Recording Grant to name a few.
Chase is also the co-founder of Gapi, a duo ensemble with Korean Gayageum player DoYeon Kim whose self titled album was nominated for a National Korean Music Award. Chase also created 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 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.
Awards
• Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts, Harvard, 2015 • Hugh F. MacColl Prize, for Violin/Cello duo composition The Horrors of Toledo, 2015 • Harvard Artist Development Fellowship, 2013 • Four ASCAP Young Jazz Composer awards and three ASCAP Plus Awards, 2007-2013 • Two time Jazz Education Network (JEN) Composition winner – Composer Showcase, 2012 & 2014 • Four Composition and film scoring awards through the Music Teachers’ Association of California Young Composers’ Guild, 2007-2013 • ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) Jimmy Van Heusen Award, 2012 • Nine DownBeat awards in composition, arrangement, performing and leading groups, 2009-2012 • Yamaha Young Performing Artist, Jazz Piano, 2012
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Keyboard, Yamaha, sound
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Chase Morrin: Jazz pianist, composer, educator & bandleader of Ize Trio
by Doug Hall
On this show we chat with Boston-based jazz pianist and composer Chase Morrin. Morrin has released multiple albums and been internationally recognized as a musician who pushes musical boundaries in jazz and classical music. His current band Ize Trio is an innovative multi-cultural project(among others) that advocates for human rights and equity. Ize Trio's current release is The Global Suites (Chase Morrin Music, 2024). We will listen to snippets of two compositions from this recording.He is currently a ...
Continue ReadingCarl Clements: A Different Light
by Dan McClenaghan
Sunlight beaming into a church through a stained-glass window is a different light--tinted and soft-hued, suggestive of the presence of divinity. Saxophonist Carl Clements' quartet outing, A Different Light, gives the same impression. Looking to the album's stained glass-like cover art, artist Amanda Barrow's visual for the album seems a fine fit for this distinctive, modern jazz quartet. The painting's colors are mostly muted, with two overlapping spheres (Neptune and Uranus? Or gas giants from another solar system?) in eclipse, ...
Continue ReadingS.D. Teen a 'Jazz Piano Phenom' - Pianist Chase Morrin, 16, Leads Bands and Plays in Others, Composes, Teaches and Takes AP Courses
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Michael Ricci
It's a good thing San Diego piano wiz Chase Morrin has the boundless energy of a teenager. Anyone with less drive and stamina might get tired just contemplating his nonstop schedule, let alone trying to pull it off. Morrin, 16, is the leader of his own jazz trio and his five-man Latin Connection. He is also the pianist in the Ira B. Liss Big Band Jazz Machine, one of San Diego's longest lived big bands, and in the Palomar College ...
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The Latin Connection - The Young Artists Series at Catalinas Bar and Grill
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Michael Ricci
One of the great things about going to Barbara Brighton's Young Artist Jazz Series at Catalina's is discovering the up and coming jazz talent, before any of the other jazzbos in this town. Over the years I've seen so many musicians come on stage looking like babies in their slightly too large suits and cocktail dresses and then blow me away.
People like a twenty year old Anthony Wilson, a teenage Dan Lutz, and an off to college Gretchen Parlato ...
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Music is More Than Kids Stuff to Jazz Phenom
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All About Jazz
While some kids idea of making good music may still be limited to an afternoon session of Guitar Hero, 14-year-old Chase Morrin is building a reputation as a master of the piano. Be it performing alone or in a group or composing his own tunes, this Canyon Crest Academy sophomore is making his own brand of noise. With his trademark black hat on his head, he plays smooth and effortlessly on the piano, fingers flying and creating cool sounding riffs. ...
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"Each member of the band excelled on their instrument and had plenty of chances to showcase their chops, but Chase Morrin on acoustic and synthesizer keyboards was just amazing. He had great technique and his solos were full of interesting ideas and rock solid rhythmic underpinnings. He had plenty to say and lots of soul and humor to say with…" — Mark Winkler, LA Jazz Scene, August 2009
"It’s a good thing San Diego piano wiz Chase Morrin has the boundless energy of a teenager. Anyone with less drive and stamina might get tired just contemplating his nonstop schedule, let alone trying to pull it off." — George Varga, Music Critic, San Diego Union Tribune
Primary Instrument
Piano
Location
Boston
Willing to teach
Intermediate to advanced
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The Machine
From: The Global SuitesBy Chase Morrin
