Glenn Crytzer’s works have been included on programs by the the Trio Bel Canto, the Northwest Symphony Orchestra, the Duo Petrarca, The Alazan Trio, the Florida State University Saxophone Quartet, the Greater Cleveland Flute Society, and the SCI/LICA New Music Festival, as well as by numerous other performers in both in the US and abroad.

Nocturne Fantasy , Crytzer’s first orchestral work, received a Student Composer Award in 2005 from the BMI Foundation as well as an honorable mention in the New York Youth Symphony’s 2006 ‘First Music’ competition. Mr. Crytzer was also named a finalist in the 2006 ASCAP/SCI Student Commissioning Project Competition and a Semi-Finalist in the 2008 Morton Gould Young Composer Awards for his work, In Stride, a jazz violoncello solo. Crytzer’s commissions include works for Seattle TownMusic, the Duo Petrarca, the Trio Bel Canto, the Musicians’ Concert Band, The Hachidori Duo, the Orchestra of the Pines, cellist Joshua Roman, and bassist Craig Wensell.

Crytzer holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Music Composition from the Florida State University and a Master's Degree in Music Composition from the Cleveland Institute of Music. His principal teachers have included Samuel Jones, Ladislav Kubik, Margaret Brouwer, and Samuel Adler at the Freie Universität Berlin. Crytzer hails from Pittsburgh, PA and currently resides in Seattle, WA where he serves as music librarian for the Seattle Opera.