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Chase Morrin

Chase Morrin

Education and Training

BS, Harvard; MM, Berklee College of music and New England Conservatory. Chase 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.

Awards and Recognition

Los Angeles Music Center Spotlight Award

Ten DownBeat awards in composition, arrangement, performing and leading groups, 2009-2017

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 Jimmy Van Heusen Award, 2012

Yamaha Young Performing Artist

Monterey Jazz Festival’s Gerald Wilson Award

Chase Morrin

Division: Expanded Education

Department: Jazz Studies

Instrument: Piano

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 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 is also a proficient programmer, having conducted research at Cox Lab (Harvard) in computational neurobiology and software engineering at Facebook, NY.

Photo by Chase Morrin.

Curriculum Vitae

BS, Harvard; MM, Berklee College of music and New England Conservatory. Chase 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.

  • Los Angeles Music Center Spotlight Award
  • Ten DownBeat awards in composition, arrangement, performing and leading groups, 2009-2017
  • 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 Jimmy Van Heusen Award, 2012
  • Yamaha Young Performing Artist
  • Monterey Jazz Festival’s Gerald Wilson Award