Crumpler One Step Closer to Carnegie Hall

Virtuoso Clarinetist Bryan A. Crumpler is invited to compete live in the East West Artists International Competition in New York City. Crumpler will face 20 top performers & chamber ensembles from around the world competing for a fully sponsored recital in Carnegie Hall.

CHARLOTTE, NC (PRWEB) September 26, 2003 -- The East and West Artists International Competition recently named virtuoso Bryan A. Crumpler as one of three clarinetists invited to compete live in their annual auditions in New York City. The competition is a three day battle of artistic flair and musical genius from classical artists around the world, each vying for a fully sponsored recital in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. The live audition rounds will take place Oct. 17 - 19 in New York, where Crumpler will face 20 other critically acclaimed classical instrumentalists, vocalists, and chamber ensembles for the top prize.

"It puts me one step closer to Carnegie Hall," says Crumpler, a step that seems like a light-year leap away for most musicians. However, having been a finalist and top prize winner of the William C. Byrd International Young Artist Competition in 2001, the Benjamin Kilgore Gibbs Competition in 2000, the UNC Symphony Concerto Competition in '99-'00, and the Richard R. Deas Competition in '94-'95, Crumpler's Carnegie Hall debut could be just around the corner.

24-year old Crumpler is an alumni Morehead Scholar and 2001 Computer Science graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill where he was also a brother of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, one of the premiere music fraternities in the country. He has studied and performed to critical acclaim throughout the United States, England, France, Switzerland, Germany, and the Netherlands and will be releasing his debut CD sometime this fall.

Other invitees to the competition include The Ibis Trio; The Ft. Lee Saxophone Quartet; sopranos Iwona Sobotka and Jin-Young Jung; clarinetists Rachel Esterwood and Arthur Lukomyansky; cellist Chao-Chun Liu; violinist Tee Khoon Tang; flautist Min Park; and pianists Charlotte Baumgartner, Edward Chilungu, Vicky Chou, Katie Frank, Makiko Hirata, Brenda Huang, Jungwon Jin, Wei-Han Su, Tali Morgulis, Mimi Solomon, and Naoko Takao.
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