Ash Fure

Ash Fure is an American composer and sound artist. Called “raw, elemental,” and “richly satisfying” by The New York Times, Fure's work explores the kinetic source of sound, bringing focus to the muscular act of music making and the chaotic behaviors of raw acoustic matter.

Ash Fure holds a PhD in Music Composition from Harvard University and joined the Dartmouth College Music Department as Assistant Professor in 2015. A finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Music, Fure also won a 2018 DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Prize, a 2017 Rome Prize in Music Composition, a 2017 Guggenheim Fellowship, a 2016 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant for Artists, a 2015 Siemens Foundation Commission Grant, the 2014 Kranichsteiner Composition Prize from Darmstadt, the 2014 Busoni Prize from the Akademie der Künste in Berlin, a 2014 Mellon Post-doctoral Fellowship from Columbia University, a 2013 Fulbright Fellowship to France, a 2013 Impuls International Composition Prize, a 2012 Darmstadt Stipendienpreis, a 2012 Staubach Honorarium, a 2011 Jezek Prize, and a 2011 10-month residency at Akademie Schloss Solitude.

Fure's work has been commissioned by major ensembles throughout Europe and the United States including the New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Modern, Quatuor Diotima, International Contemporary Ensemble, Talea Ensemble, San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, and Dal Niente. Notable recent projects include The Force of Things: An Opera for Objects, an immersive intermedia opera called “staggeringly original” and “the most purely visceral music-theatre outing of the year” by Alex Ross in the New Yorker; and Bound to the Bow for orchestra and electronics, named “boldly individual” by the New York Times and “the most arresting of the world premieres” at the 2016 New York Phil Biennial by the New Yorker.