Christopher Chaffee is Professor of Music at Wright State University, where he teaches flute, music history, and graduate courses in music teaching and learning. He also serves on the music faculty at Interlochen Arts Camp.  Dr. Chaffee is a frequent guest recitalist and clinician at universities and high schools across the USA, and has given numerous presentations on teaching innovation at International, National, and State conferences.  He has performed on US stages of all sizes from Brooklyn to Bellingham, and in Asia and Europe, and has been a substitute musician in orchestras across the Midwest for over three decades. His former students have earned places in elite graduate programs, are successful public-school teachers in several states, thriving music entrepreneurs, arts administrators, college faculty, and members of orchestras and premier US Military bands. In addition to his extensive performing career, he is a music writer, with hundreds of published reviews, essays, and program notes in American Record Guide and other places, and he has explored and presented research about the social history of American Arts and Culture institutions. Dr. Chaffee is past president of Chamber Music in Yellow Springs, a former member of the Board of the Ohio Alliance for Arts Education, and has served on advisory panels for the Ohio Department of Education and the Ohio Arts Council. He lives with his family in Yellow Springs, Ohio.