Music: Claire Chase with Lisa E. Harris, Music and Community
Professor Chase invited guest artists to work with her freshman seminar “Music and Community” course at ArtLab, and the students performed “A Black Woman Told Me and I Believe Her,” a spoken-word musical performance.
Claire Chase, Professor of the Practice in the Department of Music at Harvard University, is a soloist, collaborative artist, curator, and advocate for new and experimental music. Over the past decade, Claire Chase has given the world premieres of hundreds of new works for the flute in performances throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia, and she has championed new music throughout the world by building organizations, forming alliances, pioneering commissioning initiatives, and supporting educational programs that reach new audiences. She was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2012 and, in 2017, was awarded the Avery Fisher Prize.
Lisa (Li) E. Harris is an independent and interdisciplinary artist and creative soprano. Her practice centers on understanding the complex interrelationships between land, body, spirit, and place. She bases her work on a variety of genres and methods, from the voice to new media. Li is the founder and creative director of Studio Enertia, an arts education and production studio in Houston, Texas. She was a Research Fellow at Tulane University’s Center for the Gulf Coast. She was the Inaugural Fellow for the Center for Art and Social Engagement at the University of Houston.