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Annea Lockwood and Claire Chase: Elwha!

  • August 21 - 22, 2026
  • PS21 : Center for Contemporary Performance

    2980 New York 66
    Chatham, New York 12037
Ticket Price $12.50-$110.00 Buy Tickets
Description

Annea Lockwood, ecofeminist composer of “insatiable curiosity” with “a singular ear for the music of the natural world” and flutist Claire Chase, “the North Star of her instrument’s ever-expanding universe,” (The New York Times) meet Washington’s Elwha River as an equal and able creative collaborator in Elwha!


An astoundingly successful 2011-2014 dam removal project on the Lower Elwha led to reforestation and restored populations of nine species of native salmon and trout on the Lower Elwha Klallam people’s land. The Elwha is a model for ecosystem restoration projects—and for resilience, renewal, and rewilding—throughout the world.


Elwha! is scored for seven flutes (bamboo water flutes, glissando flutes, piccolos, alto flutes, bass flutes, C flutes, and contrabass flutes), all played by the brilliant Chase, and multichannel environmental surround sound made from Lockwood’s field recordings of the Elwha River. Chase’s seven flutes respond to the multilayered and kaleidoscopic pitch, rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic material of the Elwha and its many living inhabitants, alternately conversing with, rising above, and being submerged by the wild musics of this iconic, liberated river. 


Elwha! premiered in late 2025 at The Kitchen and is a part of Chase’s Density 2036, a 24-year project to develop a new flute repertory leading up to the centennial of Edgard Varèse’s iconic flute solo “Density 21.5” in 2036.

Date & Time

Aug 21 - 22, 2026

Venue Details

PS21 : Center for Contemporary Performance

2980 New York 66
Chatham, New York 12037 PS21 : Center for Contemporary Performance
PS21 : Center for Contemporary Performance

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