Chadwick Thomas is a clarinetist and conductor based in Hartford, Connecticut. He performs throughout the United States with orchestras and as a chamber musician and soloist. Thomas has played with the Greater Bridgeport, Hartford, Ridgefield, and Wallingford Symphonies, among others, and was a member of the Wa Sinfonietta in New York City for its debut season in 2025. As an avid chamber musician, he has performed with artists including Vadim Gluzman, Donald Palma, James VanDemark, Robert Black, Lucy Shelton, and Ayako Oshima, and is the clarinetist of the Ecor Quartet. Additionally, Thomas appears as a recitalist and, in 2023, performed the Clarinet Concerto by Jean Françaix with the Hartt Orchestra. As a conductor, Thomas has performed with the Foot in the Door Ensemble, the Hartt Orchestra, and the Atlantic Music Festival Contemporary Ensemble.

Thomas is also an active educator. He is an adjunct faculty member at The Hartt School, where he teaches the orchestral repertoire class for woodwinds, is the instructor of clarinet at Wesleyan University, and has taught clarinet and chamber music at Interlochen Arts Camp. He directed the Hartt Clarinet Ensemble for three years, leading to the ensemble’s invitation to perform at the International Clarinet Association’s ClarinetFest 2025 in Fort Worth, TX. Thomas’s other conference performances include the U.S. Navy Band International Saxophone Symposium and the Women Composers Festival of Hartford.

Originally from Eastern North Carolina, Thomas holds degrees from the Peabody Institute (BM), the University of Michigan (MM), and The Hartt School at the University of Hartford (DMA). His clarinet teachers include Ayako Oshima, Charles Neidich, Chad Burrow, Daniel Gilbert, Alexander Fiterstein, Deborah Chodacki, and Douglas Moore-Monroe. He studied conducting with Glen Adsit and Edward Cumming.