Chandler
Beaugrand
Instructor, Percussion
152B, Swope Music Building
cbeaugrand@wcupa.edu
Education
- M.M., (Marimba Performance), Boston Conservatory at Berklee
- B.M., (Percussion Performance), Boston Conservatory at Berklee
Curriculum Vitae
Chandler is an active marimbist and freelance percussionist based in New York City. He has performed numerous solo, chamber, and orchestral works throughout the USA, Europe, and Asia with a wide range of ensembles, including the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, The Boston Ballet School, Trentino Festival Orchestra (Italy), Brookline Symphony, Ideas Not Theories Theatrical Percussion Show, World Percussion Group, and many more.
Chandler is currently a percussion instructor specializing in marimba at West Chester University in Pennsylvania. He has presented masterclasses in Spain, Portugal, England, and the United States, and also runs a private teaching studio in Williamsburg, NY.
He is a founding member of a percussion duo with April Ong—ACnd Duo (pronounced "Ascend")—who were the first-place winners of the 2023 Great Plains International Marimba Competition (Duo Division). ACnd Duo was named Boston Conservatory at Berklee’s “Honors Chamber Ensemble” for the 2023–2024 concert season and were also semi-finalists in the 2023 Southern California International Artist Competition (Duo Division). Since then, the duo has performed a variety of concerts internationally across Europe and Asia.
As a soloist, Chandler was a finalist in the 2018 International Online Mallet Percussion Competition and a semi-finalist in the 2023 Great Plains International Marimba Competition (Open Solo Division). He was also a percussion fellow at the Trentino Music Festival in Italy in both 2018 and 2019.
Chandler holds an M.M. in Marimba Performance from the Boston Conservatory at Berklee, where he studied with internationally renowned marimbist Nancy Zeltsman and Jon Bisesi, former percussionist of “The President’s Own” Marine Band. He also holds a B.M. in Percussion Performance from the same institution, where he studied with Zeltsman, Bisesi, former Boston Symphony Orchestra percussionist Kyle Brightwell, and Samuel Z. Solomon. He previously attended Interlochen Arts Academy, where he studied with percussionist Keith Aleo, and before that, he was a student of Brian Slawson.
He is currently pursuing his Alexander Technique Teacher Certification under the guidance of Professor Debi Adams.
Chandler proudly endorses SchlagKraft mallets.