The music of Eric Chasalow, professor of composition and director of the Brandeis Electro-Acoustic Music Studio (BEAMS), has been performed in Hong Kong, Stockholm, Lyon, Rome, Boston, Bourges, New York, and San Francisco. He has been honored by, among others, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Fromm Foundation at Harvard University, New York Foundation for the Arts, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, with particular recognition for his works that combine live soloist with electronic sounds. Professor Chasalow's teaching specialties are music composition and electronic and computer-based music.
Find out more about Brandeis's historic music department, including the University's artists-in-residence, the Lydian String Quartet.