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Will Crutchfield is an American orchestra conductor, musicologist, educator, and former music critic. He is a 2014 fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He serves as Director of Opera at the Caramoor International Music Festival, and is a frequent guest conductor at the Polish National Opera. A specialist in the bel canto repertoire, he prepared the first performing edition of Donizetti's Élisabeth ou la fille de l'exilé, and conducted its world premiere at the Caramoor Festival on July 17, 2003.

Family & education
Born in North Carolina in 1957, Crutchfield is one of four sons of Robert S. Crutchfield, a Presbyterian pastor and operatic tenor, and Elisabeth L. Crutchfield, an educator and homemaker. He was raised in Virginia, spending most of his childhood and youth in Newport News. He graduated from Warwick High School in Newport News, and received a bachelor's degree in political science from Northwestern University. Crutchfield abandoned plans to attend law school after spending a year working for the Virginia Opera in Norfolk.

Crutchfield is the father of stage director Victoria Crutchfield.

Contributions to musicology
Despite the lack of formal education in musicology, Crutchfield established himself early as a scholar of vocal performance in opera, beginning with a 1983 paper, "Vocal Ornamentation in Verdi: The Phonographic Evidence", published in the journal, 19th-Century Music.

?Quotation from Gossett or somebody

He has written for the New Grove Dictionaries of Music, the Cambridge History of Musical Performance, the Grove-Norton Handbooks of Performance Practice, and various scholarly journals.

As of the spring of 2014, Crutchfield is at work on a book about Italian vocal performance in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Journalism & criticism
Crutchfield began his journalistic career as a music critic for the Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, Va., then moved on to the New Haven Register, where his work caught the attention of New York Times chief critic Donal Henahan. He became a regular critic for the Times in 1984, at the age of twenty-seven, the youngest critic employed by the Times up to that point. He inaugurated his career as a staff critic at the Times with a front-page story reporting his own discovery of a previously-unknown manuscript of Donizetti's Élisabeth ou la fille de l'exilé, which he subsequently edited and presented in a world premier.

Crutchfield wrote for the Times until 199?, when he left criticism to become a conductor.

During the same period, Crutchfield also contributed numerous reviews and articles to Opera News, including a regular column, "Crutchfield at Large". His writing has also appeared in Opera (London), Opus, Connoisseur, The New Republic, and The New Yorker.

Metropolitan Opera broadcasts.

Teaching & coaching
Crutchfield has served on the faculties of the Juilliard School, the Manhattan School of Music, and the Mannes College of Music. From ***date to ***date, he was artistic director of the Handel Project at the Manhattan School.

Caramoor Young Artists program.

Still in demand as a vocal coach. Big names he's worked with?

Artistic career
At the age of thirteen, Crutchfield began to accompany singers, including his father, from the piano.

Tidewater Concert Association

Virginia Opera

From 1999 through 2005, he was Music Director of the Opera de Colombia in Bogotá.

Handel Project ? here instead of under "Teaching & Coaching"

Caramoor

Honors & awards
In 2014 Crutchfield was named a fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

Selected bibliography

 * Crutchfield, Will (1983), 'Vocal Ornamentation in Verdi: The Phonographic Evidence', 19th-Century Music, Vol. 7, No. 1 (Summer, 1983), pp. 3–54.
 * Crutchfield, Will (1989), 'The Prosodic Appoggiatura in the Music of Mozart and His Contemporaries', Journal of the American Musicological Society, Vol. 42, No. 2 (Summer, 1989), pp. 229–274.
 * Crutchfield, Will (1988), 'Fashion, Conviction and Performance Style in an Age of Revivals' in N. Kenyon, ed., Authenticity and Early Music: A Symposium, Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198161530