Ash (Ashley) Fure's practice sits at the nexus of
experimental music and experiential art. Described by the New Yorker as "staggeringly original" and "the most purely visceral music-theatre outing of the year," her full-bodied listening environments offer space for social reckoning through the political, poetic, and erotic multiplicities in sound.
A finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Music, Ash Fure also received a Lincoln Center Emerging Artists Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Rome Prize in Music Composition, a DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Prize, a Foundation for Contemporary Arts
Grant for Artists, a Fulbright Fellowship to France, a Kranichsteiner Musikpreis, and a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship from Columbia University.
Notable recent projects include
Hive Rise: for Subs and Megas (2020), a migratory performance installation premiered at Berghain/CTM;
Filament: for Trio, Orchestra, and Moving Voices (2018) commissioned by the New York Philharmonic; and
The Force of Things (2017), an immersive installation opera that wrestles with the rising tide of eco-dread around us.
Ash Fure holds a PhD in Music Composition from Harvard University and is an Associate Professor of Music at Dartmouth College.
