Exploration. Education. Collaboration. Community.
Brian was the first prize winner at the 2011 Gaudeamus International Interpreters Competition out of nearly 90 participants of mixed instrumentation. He was afforded the opportunity to participate while studying at the Hochschule für Musik in Basel, Switzerland with Christian Dierstein on a combined U.S. Fulbright Grant and the Swiss Government’s FCS program.
Before Europe, he completed a Master of Music at The University of California San Diego, studying with Steven Schick. At UCSD he released his debut CD entitled Self | Space, with recordings of multi-tracked ensemble works by Edmund Campion, Jordan Munson, Trevor Bača and Peter Ablinger.
His undergraduate study was made at The University of Kentucky with Professor James Campbell. It was here that Brian believes he learned the most critical aspects of his technical playing, and simultaneously with his colleagues, began his discovery of the modern musical world. His previous teachers include Andy Salmon, John Best, and Robert Savala.
Archinal has played with Ensemble-Phoenix (Basel, Switzerland) red fish blue fish (La Jolla, CA), La Jolla Symphony (La Jolla, CA), the Lexington Philharmonic (Lexington, KY) the Kaohsiung City Symphony (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), SOUND/VISION (Lexington, KY), Arizona Contemporary Music Ensemble (Tempe, AZ), and the Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra (Lucerne Switzerland). He has performed at the Wittener Tage für Neue Musik (Witten, Germany), The Venice Bienalle (Venice, Italy), Monday Evening Concerts (Los Angeles), Carlsbad Music Festival (CA), Concours de Genevé (Geneva, Switzerland), Tromp Percussion Competition (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Gaudeamus Interpreters Competition (Amsterdam, Netherlands), Lucerne Festival (Lucerne, Switzerland), Chapman University ‘Day of Percussion’ (Orange, CA), Northeastern University ‘Fusion Arts Exchange” (Boston, MA), FreeKY Festival (Lexington, KY), two Percussive Arts Society Conventions (Nashville, Columbus), and been a Featured Artist at the Music For All Summer Symposium (Bloomington, IL).
