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)