Biography

Chase is a choir director, voice teacher, and tenor living in Baltimore, MD. He teaches Middle School Chorus at St. Paul’s Episcopal School for Boys and is the Director of Music at Hunt’s Memorial UMC in Towson. Chase earned his Masters of Music in Choral Conducting at Western Kentucky University in the spring of 2022. He is a three-time Jerry E. Baker Scholarship recipient and worked as a graduate assistant to the choral department, where he helped lead all WKU choirs in rehearsal and performance. In 2022, Chase led the tenor section rehearsals for Kentucky’s Collegiate All-State Chorus. In addition to his work at WKU, Chase was the Director of Choir and Gathering for St. James United Methodist Church of Bowling Green.

Born and raised in Metro-Detroit, Chase attended Central Michigan University and completed his Bachelors degree in Music Education (with a choral minor) in the spring of 2016. During his undergraduate experience, Chase was a frequent tenor soloist in CMU Chamber Singers performances, including their Carnegie Hall performance in the spring of 2014. He was a collegiate all-state choir member and was on the CMU ACDA student chapter leadership board. He also performed as a staff singer with the Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp’s International Choir for their month-long tour of Germany in the summer of 2013. From 2016 to 2020, Chase taught Choir and Orchestra for Mt. Pleasant Public Schools in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan while continuing to teach voice and perform regionally. He worked and performed with the Mid-Michigan Voice Academy in 2018 and 2019, and in 2019 he sang the role of Elijah with the Detroit Lutheran singers in their performance tour of Felix Mendelssohn’s Elijah. He also served as choirmaster of St. John’s Episcopal Church of Mt. Pleasant, MI from 2014-2020, where he lead a church choir that was a mix of volunteers, local music teachers, 4-7 paid student singers and two organists in regular Sunday services and monthly Evensong “concert” services.

Chase has prepared and directed school ensembles grades 6-12 in more than 40 concerts and has directed the music of seven musicals (The Little Mermaid, Catch Me If You Can, Nice Work If You Can Get It, Newsies Junior, Shrek Junior, James and the Giant Peach Junior, and Guys and Dolls).