Edmund Campion is Professor of Music Composition and Co-Director at the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT) at the University of California, Berkeley.
As a 2017 Guggenheim Fellow, Mr. Campion recently composed for the Korean Traditional Contemporary Orchestra, an ensemble that features 55 musicians performing on ancient instruments from Korea. The orchestra premiered Audible Numbers at the Pacific Rim Festival and Cal Performances in October and again in Seoul in December 2017. Campion used the occasion to work with Matthew Schumaker and Jean Bresson in creating the TESSELLATE library for Open Music.
Campion is recipient of numerous accolades including: the American Rome Prize, the Lili Boulanger Prize, The Paul Fromm Award at Tanglewood, and the Goddard Lieberson Fellowship given by the American Academy in Rome. Commissions include the 2011 Commande d’etat for Wavelike and Diverse, written for Les Percussion des Strasbourg and released on the ensembles 50th anniversary Universal CD collection; Auditory Fiction (2011), commissioned by Société Générale for Radio France; Small Wonder (The Butterfly Effect) (2012), commissioned by the Serge Koussevitzky Foundation for the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players; Auditory Fiction II (2014), written for the ECO Ensemble for the Venice Music Biennale.
In 2012, while Composer in Residence with the Santa Rosa Symphony, Campion was commissioned for The Last Internal Combustion Engine, written for full orchestra, Kronos Quartet and electronics. The piece was premiered as part of the opening season of the new Green Music Center and featured the use of the CNMAT Spherical Loudspeaker Array. Joshua Kosman of the San Francisco Chronicle called the piece “a vivid and richly imagined concerto.”
In 2015, the famed Ensemble Intercontemporain co-commissioned Campion and audiovisual artist Kurt Hentschläger for the 25-minute, Cluster X. The multi-media work was premiered at the Philharmonie de Paris in October of 2015 and toured the United States. A recent commission from pianist Marilyn Nonken was inspired by Gèrard Grisey’s Vortex Temporum. (http://edmundcampion.com/) (http: //cnmat.berkeley.edu/).
