Christopher Bade

Professor of Music—Woodwinds & Orchestra

I Serve in...

Music, Theatre & Dance Department

Education

• DMA, University of Illinois 
• MM, University of Akron
• BME, Music Education, Illinois Wesleyan University

Career Accomplishments

• Fall 2012—Sabbatical leave at Taylor University
• Nov. 2011—Presentation at Lilly International Conference on College Teaching
• 2011—Who’s Who in Collegiate Faculty
• May 2010—Premiered Concert Music! by Dana Collins with Marion Philharmonic
• May 2009—Recitals in Budapest, Hungary with Kyung Nam Oh, cello and Klara Kommendi, piano
• Feb. 2009—Presentation at Midwest Scholar’s Conference
• Sept. 2008—Presentation at Lilly North International Conference on College Teaching
• 2007–2009—Who’s Who in American Education

About

We (my family and I) came to Taylor as an answer to prayer. We lived in Oklahoma for nine years and loved our time there; but as God increased our family we prayed for the possibility to be in closer proximity to family in Chicago and NE Ohio. The university has been wonderful as a place to grow professionally and spiritually and this was evident from the moment I stepped on campus as a faculty candidate. Daily I am inspired to come to work where my colleagues are united in training and working with young people who love the Lord and want to share Jesus with a dying world. I am blessed to be encouraged and challenged here at Taylor.

Hobbies

Principal clarinet, Marion Philharmonic; bass clarinet, Muncie Symphony; Kokomo Park Band; conducting; soccer as a Dad and participant; volleyball; teaching youth at VBS; leading worship occasionally at Old Town Hill Baptist Church, Muncie; and reading