Thérèse-Marie Chaix is aN AWARD-WINNING composer, visual artist, & author.

Thérèse-Marie Chaix (pronounced tair-ehz mree shay) is an award-winning composer, multi-instrumentalist, visual artist, and author. HER WORK plays with TRANSMUTING TRADITIONAL FORMS—TAKING THE LOST MEDIEVAL ART FORM KNOWN AS EYE MUSIC TO CONTEMPORARY WHIMSICAL EXTREMES BY CREATING LARGE-SCALE ART SCORES IN THE SHAPE OF RAINBOWS ON PUFFY CLOUDS, SATURN’S RINGS, AND NOODLES TANGLED AROUND GIANT VIOLET CHOPSTICKS. THESE LARGE-SCALE GRAPHIC SCORES DOUBLE AS AUDIO-VISUAL ARTWORKS UTILIZING NFC TECHNOLOGY TO ALLOW THE VIEWER TO LISTEN TO THE MUSIC THEY’RE LOOKING AT. HER BOOK OF COSMIC FAIRYTALES FROM THE DREAM REALM CALLED MIRA + OTHER DREAMS FROM THE PLACES I GO WHEN I SLEEP plays with shapes AND COLORS that have the book spinning in your hands as you read. SHE paints pictures in paragraphs by altering the colors of letters and words. SHE SCULPTS PARAGRAPHS into the shapes of VISUAL elements in the stories LIKE LIGHTNING BOLTS, DOLLHOUSES, AND TECHNICOLOR PLANETS SPINNING IN SPACE. AT THE CORE OF HER PROJECTS IS A COMMITMENT TO HONEST AND VULNERABLE STORYTELLING, DRAWING FROM HER LIFE EXPERIENCES AND THE WORLDS SHE BUILDS WITHIN HER IMAGINATION.

CHAIX’S FASCINATION WITH THE POWER OF world-building and STORYTELLING TO TRANSFORM OUR VIEW OF THE WORLD AND BRING PEOPLE TOGETHER BLOSSOMED INTO A LIFE-LONG PASSION WHILE SPENDING A CHILDHOOD CRAFTING WORLDS WITH WORDS, COLORS, AND MUSIC IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. Classically trained in piano, cello, and voice from ages three, six, and twelve respectively, SHE began composing at age nine and received her first commission at age sixteen from the University of California Berkeley. Her works have since been awarded an ASCAP Morton Gould Award, a Pacific Musical Society First Prize, and commissions from numerous ensembles, universities, and festivals worldwide. She received her undergraduate and graduate training in classical composition at the Manhattan School of Music IN NEW YORK CITY and the Hochschule der Künste in Zurich, Switzerland.