Christopher Bade is Professor of Music at Taylor University (since 2004) where his responsibilities include conducting the Symphony Orchestra and Wind Ensemble, teaching Clarinet and Saxophone, Music History, Music Theory, Woodwind Methods, and Fine Arts/Humanities, in the Department of Music, Theatre, and Dance.

He serves as Section Clarinet in the newly formed Orchestra Indiana after having been Principal Clarinet in the Marion Philharmonic for 18 years.  He has been clarinet soloist with the Marion Philharmonic and Alliance Symphony Orchestras.  He is active as a clinician (orchestra, wind band, and clarinet) and adjudicator throughout the Midwest. 

Bade earned degrees from Illinois Wesleyan University (BME, Cum Laude), the University of Akron (MM) and the University of Illinois (DMA).  Bade has been as a Fulbright Peer Reviewer. 

His wife Michelle is an Assistant Professor of Music Education and Coordinator of Master’s Music Education courses at Anderson University.  She serves as Area IV representative of IMEA.  They are blessed parents of Sarah, Michael, and Ryan.