Chanell Crichlow is a low brass multi-instrumentalist, composer, performer, and educator residing in sunny California. She formed PitchBlak Brass Band in 2010 at the start of what became a vibrant brass band movement in New York City and across the globe. The group received high acclaim in both Downbeat Magazine and The Source Magazine during their tenure.

As a tubist, she has performed with Yuga Cohler (YEETHOVEN, K-POP), Ludwig Göransson, (Wordless Music Orchestra), Solange (Governors Ball Music Festival), Andy Grammer (The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Today Show), Shamir (The Late Show with Stephen Colbert), Pharoahe Monch (The Ecstatic Music Festival, Duke University), and more.

Chanell is currently the Assistant Professor of Practice in Tuba and Euphonium at the University of the Pacific. She received her Masters in Classical Tuba Performance at Pennsylvania State University under the tutelage of Velvet Brown and her Bachelors in Classical Tuba Performance at The Manhattan School of Music under the tutelage of Toby Hanks.