Chase McClung
he/him
flute
Hometown: Beaverton, OR
Alma maters: New England Conservatory, M.M. 2020, G.D. 2022; The Hartt School, University of Hartford, B.M. 2017
Photo by Matt Dine
Appearances
Texas Music Festival, 2019
What is your earliest memory of classical music?
Skipping around radio stations and stumbling on the Beethoven Septet, Op. 20, in elementary school
Who is your biggest inspiration?
Cynthia Meyers, my teacher. No one else has a sound like hers. I blame her for making me fall in love with piccolo!
If you could play another instrument, what would it be?
Clarinet. They can pretty much do anything musically possible and have the best parts written for them by the best composers.
If you weren’t a musician, what would you be doing?
Surgery
Tell us something about yourself that might surprise us
I was a competitive Mario Kart Wii player in high school, featured on top 10 regional time trials in Japan.
Piece of advice for a young classical musician
It’s okay to take the risk of pursuing classical music. If you have to, fail now and try another profession while you are still young instead of spending the rest of your life wondering what could have happened.