Chadwick Thomas is a clarinetist, conductor, and educator based in Hartford, Connecticut. A passionate chamber musician, he has performed with artists such as Vadim Gluzman, Donald Palma, James VanDemark, Robert Black, and Lucy Shelton, and Ayako Oshima, among others, and is a member of the Ecor Quartet. Thomas has appeared as an orchestral musician with the Greater Bridgeport, Hartford, Ridgefield, and Wallingford Symphonies, and the Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra. He is a member of the Wa Sinfonietta in New York City for its debut season in Spring 2025. Additionally, Thomas performs as a recitalist, and in February 2023 he performed the Clarinet Concerto by Jean Françaix with the Hartt Orchestra.

Thomas teaches privately and has served as the Clarinet Teaching Fellow at Interlochen Arts Camp since 2023. He is an adjunct faculty member at The Hartt School, where he teaches the orchestra repertoire class for woodwinds and directed the Hartt Clarinet Ensemble for three years, leading to the ensemble's invitation to perform at the International Clarinet Associatoin's ClarinetFest in 2025. In addition to performing as a clarinetist, Thomas is a conductor who has performed with the Hartt Orchestra and the Atlantic Music Festival Contemporary Ensemble.

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