Craig Kridel
E. S. Gambrell Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Educational Studies
Curator Emeritus, Museum of Education
University of South Carolina

"One of the conditions of happiness is the opportunity of a calling, 
a career which somehow is congenial to one’s own temperament." John Dewey

         

Arts-related Research & Aesthetic Education

I have been involved actively in the fields of aesthetic education and historical music. While many of my colleagues engage in arts-based research in the field of education, I have found myself more active in arts-related research and, with my background in aesthetic education (as the founder and director of the Institute for the Advancement of the Arts in Education at Ohio State University), I am active in the presentation of research in various arts settings.

 

Lititz Moravian Collegium Musicum

I currently serve as serpentist/bass hornist for the Lititz Collegium Musicum, a chamber orchestra (founded in the late 1760s) in the Moravian community of Lititz, Pa. The early American Moravians who settled in Lititz in the mid-eighteenth century are recognized today for the strong musical tradition they brought with them from Europe. This modern-instrument chamber ensemble (with the exception of the serpent and bass horn) and their harmoniemusik ensemble perform works from the original Collegium Musicum library. I play parts that were performed by Francis Lewis Lennert (1805-1872), silversmith and watchmaker of Lititz, during the 1830s and 1840s (and perhaps earlier).

 

Arts-related Research & Aesthetic Education

I continue my research in late 18th and early 19th century harmoniemusik
and serve as coordinator for Harmoniemusik North America.
For more information about harmoniemusic, please visit
Harmoniemusik North America at www.harmoniemusik.org

I served as the Weinstock Artist-in-Residence at Lehigh University
where I participated in a wonderful British harmonie project with specialist Professor David Diggs,
and I presently serve as serpentist-bass hornist for a Moravian early music chamber orchestra, the Lititz (PA) Collegium.

I serve as a columnist and editor of the Historical Instrument Section of the ITEA (International Tuba Euphonium Association) Journal and as coordinator of Berlioz Historical Brass, an advocacy-related music ensemble.

For more information about Berlioz Historical Brass, go to berliozhistoricalbrass.org
To see my Historical Instrument columns in the International Tuba Euphonium Association Journal, go to berliozhistoricalbrass.org/itea


with members of Berlioz Historical Brass
at the premiere of Mendelssohn's Seasons,
2009 Historical Brass Festival, Connecticut College, with conductor Wim Becu

 

 


with Peter Schickele at his 2005 40th anniversary holiday concert,
New York City; photo credit: R. Termine, New York Times


with Peter Schickele, Douglas Yeo, and Steven Silverstein
at the NYC PDQ Bach 40th Anniversary Concert, 2005

 

 

and with original cast members from Hair and Jesus Christ Superstar at the Tom O'Horgan Memorial


Dr. Craig Kridel
University of South Carolina

craig@sc.edu

“When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?”
Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day, Feb. 16, 1946

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The contents have not been reviewed by the University of South Carolina.