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William Campbell (b. 1969) is a composer, pianist and improviser. In addition to European and American art music, he has studied and performed music of West Africa, Bali and Native America, and integrates a wide variety of these musical influences into his own music. His personal and unique musical sensitivity synthesizes old and new, secular and sacred, into a powerfully cohesive whole. William's music has been performed throughout North America by orchestras, chamber groups, vocalists, and in theater productions. Additionally, he has composed for films and stage productions, and his worship music is sung every Sunday in multiple churches across the country. As a pianist he has performed with multiple new music groups including the acclaimed Sonoran Consort. His first solo piano cd, simply titled, "Piano Songs," is due out in spring of 2011. Please check out the piano blog link to the left for more information.
Recent premieres include FlipSide, an immersive mixed-media performance featuring original music, art and staging, Open Vistas for concert band, the score for an avant-garde production of Oedipus Rex, and On the Horizon, for solo piano. He has also composed and recorded the scores for multiple films including the recent independent release of Cadaver Christmas and the documentary, Finding Face, with Spin Film. His concert band music is published by BRS Music, and has been played throughout the country and featured at the MidWest Band Clinic. Performances of his sacred music continue throughout the country and are published on his own label and through Chalice Press. He has been awarded with honors of scholarship and teaching from the University of Oregon and Pima Community College. Composition awards include ASCAPPlus Award (2010), the Penfield Music Commission Project Composition Prize (2006), a Waging Peace International Composition Special Honor (2003), a Tucson/Pima Arizona Arts Fellowship (1999) and the 1995 Jim Highsmith Award from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music for his orchestral work, Sinfonietta.
William is a member of ASCAP and CCLI, and is a board member of the Iowa Composers Forum, helping to organize festivals of contemporary music. He earned degrees from the University of Arizona (B.M.), the San Francisco Conservatory of Music (M.M.), and the University of Oregon (Ph.D.). His dissertation was Earth Mass, a contemporary ecological, liturgical expression. He has led contemporary music at churches for over 15 years, and is the coordinator of contemporary music at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Davenport, Iowa. A passionate educator, he has taught music theory, technology and world music classes at Pima Community College and Missouri State University. William is an Associate Professor of Music Theory & Composition at St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa and is Chair of the Music Department. For details, please view his Academic CV.
From 1999--2001, he and his wife built a straw-bale house and music studio in the desert near Tucson, Arizona. To learn more about that adventure, please visit the HOMESTEAD section of this website.
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