Bainbridge Island Flute Teachers

Grace Jun, Flute Teacher

Grace Jun

Grace Jun is currently the principal flutist of the Bainbridge Symphony Orchestra and a highly sought after flute teacher serving the Issaquah and Sammamish communities, as well as Bainbridge Island in Washington. As a prize winner of national competitions, her performances have taken her across the globe to Xi’an, Beijing, and Chengdu, China, as well as Daejeon, South Korea. She taught masterclasses, coached chamber groups, and was featured as principal flutist. She was also chosen to perform as principal flutist with the Seattle Symphony for a side-by-side concert in 2018.

Grace earned her Master of Music in Flute Performance at the University of Washington (UW) in 2024. In 2020, she graduated with a Bachelor of Music in Flute Performance with an additional Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from the UW.

In her teaching studio, lessons focus on producing beautiful tone, expression, technique, and theory, but catered to the individual. Grace believes each person learns differently, enjoys different things, and is unique in their own way. She welcomes any music that the student wants to learn, whether it’s from a TV show, movie, or any song on the radio! Grace’s main goal is to equip her students with a strong love, passion, and foundation for music.

I like to take whatever style of music students are interested in and use that interest to foster a deeper understanding of music in general.

Chuck

Chuck Easton

Chuck Easton teaches guitar, upright bass, jazz and beginning piano, jazz flute, music theory, improvisation, and arranging.

He played in jazz, swing, and big bands in Seattle and toured throughout the West Coast during the ’70s. Chuck is a recipient of a National Endowment of the Arts Jazz Composition award.

Chuck moved to Boston in the late ’70s and completed his music degree from Berklee College of Music in 1980. While there, he studied guitar and arranging. Lots of great music in the big city, but he missed the mountains, and made the decision to return to his home in the Northwest. Chuck and his wife, Autumn, eventually settled in a rural area on a ridge south of Chimacum.

Over the years, he has played many different styles of music, but bebop-influenced jazz is his favorite. A long-time faculty member of Centrum’s Jazz Pt. Townsend, Chuck teaches basic theory and coaches student ensembles during the week-long summer festival.

Chuck was on the faculty of the NW Big Band in Pt. Townsend for many years. He later took over conducting duties for six years.

For thirty years, Chuck has played bass with the Pt. Townsend Symphony Orchestra, and he’s also served as a board member. Chuck played bass for several years with the Turtle Bluff Chamber Orchestra.

Chuck performs locally in bands of various configurations- trio, quartet, quintet, and his R&B septet. He enjoys writing arrangements for his band, and plays guitar, bass, piano, flute, saxophone, and occasionally chromatic harmonica, Eb tuba, and trombone.

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