Chris Young has played the cello since the year 2000, when a 2nd-grade classmate’s show-and-tell cello performance inspired him to start learning the instrument. After graduating from Interlochen Arts Academy, Chris earned degrees at the University of Miami and the University of Michigan. He has been a member of the Idaho Falls Symphony and the Miami Symphony. An active chamber musician, Chris has performed at nearly 100 Miami weddings, with the University of Michigan Baroque Ensemble, and as founding cellist of the Stamps String Quartet, a fellowship ensemble at the University of Miami. As part of that ensemble, Chris has appeared on music by Miami band Dangerflow that was featured on ESPN’s “First Take” and as part of the Miami Heat’s 2012 championship parade. He was a member of the Discovery Trio, a flute-harpsichord-cello ensemble specializing in Baroque and Contemporary music featured by the University of Washington School of Music in 2017-18. Chris is an active member of the UW Modern and Baroque Ensembles, and the cellist of the Morsel Trio, a Seattle-based piano trio. He serves as Assistant Principal Cello in Symphony Tacoma. Currently, Chris is in the Doctor of Musical Arts program studying with Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir at the University of Washington in Seattle. His previous teachers include Richard Aaron, Crispin Campbell, Ross Harbaugh, Janet McIntosh, and Robert Tueller. Chris plays a Christopher Dungey cello on generous loan from the Wong/Engel Cello Library.