Allan Chase
Education and Training
BM, Arizona State University; MA, Tufts University; Graduate studies, New England Conservatory.
Allan Chase
Division: College
Department: Jazz Studies; Music History and Musicology
Instrument: Saxophone
From 2008 to 2021, Chase chaired the Ear Training department at Berklee College of Music, where he continues to teach ear training, harmony, jazz composition, and jazz history and analysis. He began his teaching career at Berklee in 1981, and has also taught at Tufts University (1993-7) and New England Conservatory (1994-2012, 2023-present), where he served as chair of jazz studies, chair of contemporary improvisation, and dean of faculty. He has taught at Berklee’s Valencia (Spain) Summer Performance Program in July of 2014-18, and was director of the Interlochen Summer Jazz program in 2019. He was involved with the Berklee Global Jazz Institute and its master’s degree program from the planning stages through Fall 2022. He has given clinics and masterclasses at about twenty-five schools in ten countries.
Allan Chase is a jazz saxophonist, composer, researcher, and college educator. He has performed jazz and improvised music since 1974 with his own groups and as a member of the Lewis Nash-Allan Chase Duo (1979-80), Your Neighborhood Saxophone Quartet (1981-2018), Prima Materia with Rashied Ali (1992-2000), the Steve Lantner Trio and Quartet with Joe Morris and Luther Gray (2002-present), the Ayn Inserto Jazz Orchestra, the Bruno Råberg Quartet, Ra Kalam Bob Moses, and many other groups. He appears as a soloist on over sixty jazz and improvised music recordings, a few rock and classical recordings, and several movie scores. He has released two CDs as a leader, Dark Clouds with Silver Linings (with Ron Horton, Tony Scherr, and Matt Wilson) and Phoenix (with Ron Horton, Adam Kolker, David Finck, and Lewis Nash).
Curriculum Vitae
BM, Arizona State University; MA, Tufts University; Graduate studies, New England Conservatory.