Edmund Campion
http://cnmat.CNMAT.Berkeley.EDU/~campion/
E-Mail: campion@cnmat.berkeley.edu
Edmund J. Campion was born in Dallas ,Texas in 1957. He received his Doctorate
degree in composition at Columbia University and attended the Paris Conservatory
where he worked with composer Gérard Grisey. In 1993, he created the
piece Losing
Touch (Billaudot Editions, Paris) at IRCAM ( L'Institut de Recherche et
Coordination Acoustique/Musique) he was subsequently commissioned by IRCAM to
produce a large scale work for interactive electronics and midi-grand piano
(Natural Selection)
(ICMC 2002). Other projects include a Radio France Commission l'Autre
(The Other), the full-scale ballet Playback (commissioned by IRCAM and the
Socitété des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques ) and ME
, for Baritone and live electronics, commissioned by the MANCA festival in association
with CIRM (Centre National de Création Musicale).
Campion is currently Professor of Music at the University of Berkeley in California
where he also serves as Co-Director at CNMAT (The Center for New Music and AudioTechnologies).
Other prizes and honors include: the Rome Prize, the Nadia Boulanger Award,
the Paul Fromm Award at Tanglewood, a Charles Ives Award given by the American
Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Fulbright scholarship for study in France.
Recent projects indluce a Fromm Foundation commission for Outside Music, written
for the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players and a French Ministry of Culture
Commande d'etat for Ondoyants et Divers (Billaudot Editions, Paris), written
for the Percussion de Strasbourg Ensemble. Ondoyants et Divers was premiered
on WDR German Radio in the Fall of 2005. A newly commissioned work, Practice,
for the American Composers Orchestra was premiered in Carnegie's Zankel Hall
in March of 2006. Practice, was also preformed by the Berkeley Symphony under
the baton of Maestro Kent Nagano in the summer of 2006. Recent commissions include
a new work with dance in collaboration with the Drumming Ensemble of Portugal
and a new work for the violin and piano duo of David Abel and Julie Stienberg.(view
a list of works and listen to MP3's) (home
page)
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IRCAM 1999 (photo credit: Philippe Gontier)