Chris Carmean has served as an Assistant Band Director and Percussion Instructor in the Pickerington Local School District since 2001.  Under his direction, the PHSN Percussion Ensemble performed at the OMEA Professional Development Conference in 2015, 2017, and 2019, and in 2023 he founded the PHSN steel band, The Steel PANthers.  PHSN has had 35 percussionists selected for OMEA All-State Ensembles.

Mr. Carmean earned a B.M. from Miami University and an M.M. from Duquesne University.  He marched snare drum for two seasons with the Troopers Drum & Bugle Corps, has performed with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the New World Symphony, the Naples Philharmonic, the Columbus Symphony Orchestra, and performs regularly with the Newark-Granville Symphony Orchestra.  Mr. Carmean is a percussion adjudicator for OMEA Solo & Ensemble and Marching Band Adjudicated Events, and served as Junior High Affairs Chair and Marching Band Adjudications Chair on the OMEA Adjudicated Events Committee.  He has six works for percussion ensemble available through C.Alan Publications.

Mr. Carmean is married to professional flutist Lindsey Goodman, and they reside in Pickerington with their chaos creator Bichon Frise dog, Beau.