Bryan Crisp has toured the United States extensively as a trumpet soloist and music educator. As a member of “Mr. Jack Daniel’s Original Silver Cornet Band”, and a previous member of “Tim Zimmerman and the King’s Brass,” Bryan has had the opportunity to perform as soloist in concert halls in 38 states.
Bryan is a winner of the National Trumpet Competition , the Tennessee Trumpet Competition & performs regularly with major orchestras including the Cincinnati Symphony, Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, Cincinnati Opera, Dayton Philharmonic and the Cincinnati Ballet Orchestra. In addition to these, Bryan performs regularly with Broadway Across America productions in the Cincinnati/Dayton, OH areas.
As a music educator, Mr. Crisp is in demand as a marching arts consultant & works with award winning band programs as a brass educator, music consultant, program coordinator and score editor as well as serving as a clinician for national and state conferences. Mr. Crisp is also an active adjudicator with Drum Corp International (DCI), Bands of America (BOA), Winter Guard International (WGI), various local circuits around the country, ITG and the National Trumpet Competition. Mr. Crisp has held Instructor of Trumpet positions at Wittenberg University, Mt. St. Joseph University, University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and the Tennessee Governor’s School for the Arts Program.
Bryan holds two undergraduate degrees from Tennessee Technological University in Music Education and Music Performance and a Master of Music degree in Trumpet Performance from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM). Bryan can be heard on ten recordings including the latest available through Summit Records entitled Classic Hymns DCD428, 2005. Bryan lives in Northern Kentucky with his beautiful wife Sarah and daughters Sadie & Georgia.
Bryan is a Yamaha Performing Artist and a Patrick Mouthpiece Artist
