Welcome Chase!

Earlier in the month, we were thrilled to welcome Chase Spruill as he joins us to
fill a one-year teaching artist position at CMW. Chase traveled
cross-country to join us, relocating with his fiancee Marie and son
Charlie (aka Charles Spruill the Fifth!) from Vacaville, California.
Chase graduated with a Bachelor's in Music Performance from Sacramento
State University in 2010, and has been a resident artist at Sacramento
State since that time with his chamber group, Citywater New Music
Ensemble.

Chase has extensive teaching and performing experience (he
began teaching group violin classes at the ripe old age of 13, in his
hometown of Vacaville), and we feel incredibly lucky to have him join
the CMW community. In the two weeks since he's arrived, Chase has been
thinking a lot about the process of becoming a CMW musician, and the
opportunities (for both him and for CMW) that come with an "outsider's"
perspective on CMW. He's promised to write some blog posts on this
topic, so keep your eyes peeled!

-Chloe Kline, Education Director