Craig is a trumpet performer and instructor based in Greenville, SC.

He has degrees in trumpet performance from Yale School of Music (MM) and Furman University (BM). Craig recently won the Second Trumpet position in the Hendersonville Symphony Orchestra and performs often with the Greenville Symphony Orchestra, GAMAC Orchestra, GSO Brass Quintet, Greenville Jazz Collective Big Band, Project X Big Band, Flat Rock Playhouse, Foothills Brass Band, and on occasion the Asheville Symphony, Spartanburg Philharmonic, and South Carolina Philharmonic.

Craig is experienced in a number of musical styles, having performed in symphony orchestras, chamber ensembles, swing bands, jazz combos, the salsa band Sonido Unidad, rock bands, musicals, and more. Past highlights include performances at New York City’s Lincoln Center with the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Broadway shows on local stops, Ringling Bros Circus, opening band for Wilco, Battle Of The Bands winner at the renowned Toad’s Place in New Haven, and orchestras with Johnny Mathis, Andrea Bocelli, Edwin McCain, and Bela Fleck.

For more than 20 years Craig has taught trumpet lessons and currently teaches trumpet at the SC Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities and Converse University. In the past, he has also taught courses at Furman University and served as Director of Jazz Bands for another local university.

Craig enthusiastically provides help and strategies to players dealing with embouchure issues. After suffering a lip injury his junior year of college due to faulty practice and playing habits, Craig began what proved to be a very long road to recovery. He spent many years working through different embouchures and methods, eventually finding what works, all the while developing a very intimate understanding of all approaches and a keen ear for detecting playing problems.