Craig Kridel, English bass horn, serpent Forveille, organized the first International Serpent Festival (and commissioned the Proctor Concerto for serpent) and has appeared on BBC, NPR, ABC radio to discuss the revival of interest in historical brass. He has performed on serpent with the London Serpent Trio and with Peter Schickele-P.D.Q. Bach, has presented at the International Tuba and Euphonium Conference, College Band Directors National Association’s Conference, the International Double Reed Society Conference, and has served as the Weinstock Artist-in-Residence at Lehigh University. Kridel appears as serpentist on the “Le Monde du Serpent” CD with Douglas Yeo, serpentist and bass trombonist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and performed the encore for the 2005 40th Anniversary P.D.Q. Bach Retrogressive concerts and the solo “call to service” for Pope John Paul II’s American 1987 Ecumenical Service. He received the International Tuba Euphonium Association’s Clifford Bevan Award for Meritorious Work in Low Brass Scholarship, has published various essays throughout the past 25 years in the International Tuba Euphonium Association Journal’s Historical Instrument column, and prepared the "bass horn" entry for the New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments.

Craig Kridel is coordinator of Berlioz Historical Brass [www.berliozhistoricalbrass.org], administrator for Harmoniemusik North America [www.harmoniemusik.org], and a columnist for the International Tuba Euphonium Association Journal.