Chad Beebe is an emerging musician from New Haven, Connecticut, whose work centers on contemporary repertoire, collaborative performance, and sharing his passion for music with the next generation of aspiring percussionists. As a Yaffe Postgraduate Fellow, Chad cares deeply for the responsibility he has to educate the next generation of musicians. He has performed extensively throughout the United States and Europe, and has collaborated with and championed the work of a number of the world’s preeminent composers, including Martin Bresnick, David Lang, and Garth Neustadter. As a chamber musician, he has appeared with the internationally acclaimed Percussion Collective and made his Carnegie Hall debut as a winner of the Yale Chamber Music Competition. As an orchestral musician, he has made appearances with the UNT Baroque Orchestra at the Boston Early Music Festival under Paul Leenhouts, and performed at Carnegie Hall with the Yale Philharmonic under Peter Oundjian.

As an educator, he has been teaching for almost ten years, with students ranging from as young as 5-years old to collegiate age. With the Percussion Collective, he has performed outreach concerts for the underprivileged students around New Haven, and was honored to have taught privately in the Dallas-Fort Worth and New Haven communities. Chad also pulls from his experience in the marching arts in his work as a marching percussion instructor and clinician.

Chad is finishing his Yaffe Postgraduate Fellowship at the Yale School of Music. He graduated summa cum laude and received his B.M. degrees in Music Education and Performance from the University of North Texas, an M.M. from the Peabody Institute, and an M.M.A. from the Yale School of Music, studying with Mark Ford, Christopher Deane, Paul Rennick, and Robert van Sice, respectively.