Eric Chasalow is Associate Professor of Composition, Chair of the Music Department at 
Brandeis University, and director of BEAMS, the BrandeisElectro-Acoustic Music Studio.
Dr. Chasalow received the D.M.A. from Columbia University, where his principal 
teacher was Mario Davidovsky and where he studied flute withHarvey Sollberger. He 
pursued undergraduate studies at Bates College andNew England Conservatory of Music. He 
has received awards and commissionsfrom, among others, the Fromm Foundation for Music
 at Harvard University,John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the 
Arts, New YorkFoundation for the Arts, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, 
withparticular recognition for his works that combine live soloist withelectronic sounds. 

Eric Chasalow formerly served as Executive Director of the Guild of Composers, for whom 
he produced several seasons of concerts in New York City and a nationally distributed 
series of radio programs called "Composers in Concert." He has also held the position of 
Executive Director of Music Alliance, an organization dedicated to improving the climate 
for the art of music through educational programs and standards.  New World Records has 
released Over the Edge, a compact disc of Eric Chasalow's music. His This Way Out is 
available on CD from the International Computer Music  Association and was featured at 
that organization's 1992 international conference. Performances of his music have 
recently taken place in Hong Kong, Bratislava, Rome, Stockholm, Boston, San Francisco and 
Washington D.C. His music is published by G. Schirmer, McGinnis & Marx (New York) and 
Edition Bim (Bulle, Switzerland).