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James Campbell (clarinetist)
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James Campbell is a Canadian/American clarinetist. James Campbell has followed his muse to five television specials, more than 40 recordings, over 30 works commissioned, a Juno Award (Stolen Gems), a Roy Thomson Hall Award, Canada's Artist of the Year and the Order of Canada. Most recently, Campbell received The Queen's Golden Jubilee
Called by the Toronto Star “Canada’s pre-eminent clarinetist and wind soloist”, James Campbell has performed solo and chamber music concerts in 30 countries, has been soloist with over 60 orchestras, including the Boston Pops, the London Symphony, the Russian Philharmonic, and the Montreal Symphony and has performed Copland’s Clarinet Concerto four times with Aaron Copland conducting. He has appeared with over 30 string quartets, including the Amadeus (when he replaced an ailing Benny Goodman on a tour of California), Guarneri, Vermeer, New Zealand, Fine Arts, Allegri and St Lawrence Quartets.
More than 30 works have been written for James Campbell, including works by James Macmillan (Scotland) Jacques Hetu (Canada), David Baker (US), George Shearing (UK/US), Wilhem Jetts (Holland), and Keiko Harada (Japan). Dreaming of the Masters, a jazz concerto by Allan Gilliland, and commissioned by the Edmonton Symphony, received its premieres with the Edmonton Symphony (Canada) and the Boston Pops (US). Gilliland also arranged Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story for Campbell (premiered with the Kitchener Waterloo Symphony Orchestra).
Coming off his 26th season as Artistic Director of Festival of the Sound, during 2010-2011 James will team up with other musicians for exciting collaborations that embody classical, jazz and the unknown......
• Spirit '20 with James Campbell, Mark Fewer, Guy Few, James McKay, John Novacek and Chloe Dominguez featuring music of the 1920s
• New Zealand String Quartet - clarinet quintets by Mozart, Brahms, Weber, Gilliland, Baker, McMillan, Schbert..in association with Jonathan Wentworth Associates, Ltd
Campbell is the subject of numerous features and cover stories in Clarinet Magazine (US), Clarinet and Sax (UK), Piper Magazine (Japan), Gramophone, and in the book Clarinet Virtuosi of Today, by British author and clarinet authority Pamela Weston. In 1984, James Campbell was named Artistic Director of the annual summer chamber music festival in Parry Sound, ON, the Festival of the Sound. Mr. Campbell has taken the Festival to England on three occasions and it has been the subject of documentaries by BBC Television, CBC Television and TV Ontario.
He won the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
(CBC) Talent Festival and the JM
International Clarinet Competition in Belgrade
, Yugoslavia
in 1971. In 1972 he represented Canada
at the 26th Congress of the International Federation of JM at Augsburg
. Additionally, he was a semi-finalist in the Budapest
International Clarinet Competition in 1970.
He was a jury member on various competitions, including the 1987 Jeunesses Musicales
International Competition in Belgrade
, along with Walter Boeykens
(Belgium
), Thea King
(UK), Ludwig Kurkiewicz (Poland
), Milenko Stefanovic
(Yugoslavia
), Ernest Ackun
(Yugoslavia), Marko Rudzak (Yugoslavia) and Stjepan Rabuzin (Yugoslavia)
The Canadian Music Council named him artist of the year in 1989, and he was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada
in 1997.
Called by the Toronto Star “Canada’s pre-eminent clarinetist and wind soloist”, James Campbell has performed solo and chamber music concerts in 30 countries, has been soloist with over 60 orchestras, including the Boston Pops, the London Symphony, the Russian Philharmonic, and the Montreal Symphony and has performed Copland’s Clarinet Concerto four times with Aaron Copland conducting. He has appeared with over 30 string quartets, including the Amadeus (when he replaced an ailing Benny Goodman on a tour of California), Guarneri, Vermeer, New Zealand, Fine Arts, Allegri and St Lawrence Quartets.
More than 30 works have been written for James Campbell, including works by James Macmillan (Scotland) Jacques Hetu (Canada), David Baker (US), George Shearing (UK/US), Wilhem Jetts (Holland), and Keiko Harada (Japan). Dreaming of the Masters, a jazz concerto by Allan Gilliland, and commissioned by the Edmonton Symphony, received its premieres with the Edmonton Symphony (Canada) and the Boston Pops (US). Gilliland also arranged Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story for Campbell (premiered with the Kitchener Waterloo Symphony Orchestra).
Coming off his 26th season as Artistic Director of Festival of the Sound, during 2010-2011 James will team up with other musicians for exciting collaborations that embody classical, jazz and the unknown......
• Spirit '20 with James Campbell, Mark Fewer, Guy Few, James McKay, John Novacek and Chloe Dominguez featuring music of the 1920s
• New Zealand String Quartet - clarinet quintets by Mozart, Brahms, Weber, Gilliland, Baker, McMillan, Schbert..in association with Jonathan Wentworth Associates, Ltd
Teaching career
Since 1989 Campbell has been teaching clarinet at the prestigious Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.Awards, Honours and Press
Of Campbell's extensive discography many have won international acclaim. Most recent releases include the Brahms Clarinet Quintet with the Allegri Quartet, voted "Top Choice" by BBC Radio 3, the world premiere recording of Brahms [orchestrated Berio Sonata Op. 120 No. 1 with the London Symphony Orchestra (both on Cala Records); and the Sony Classical re-release of the Debussy Premier Rhapsody with Glenn Gould.Campbell is the subject of numerous features and cover stories in Clarinet Magazine (US), Clarinet and Sax (UK), Piper Magazine (Japan), Gramophone, and in the book Clarinet Virtuosi of Today, by British author and clarinet authority Pamela Weston. In 1984, James Campbell was named Artistic Director of the annual summer chamber music festival in Parry Sound, ON, the Festival of the Sound. Mr. Campbell has taken the Festival to England on three occasions and it has been the subject of documentaries by BBC Television, CBC Television and TV Ontario.
He won the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly known as CBC and officially as CBC/Radio-Canada, is a Canadian crown corporation that serves as the national public radio and television broadcaster...
(CBC) Talent Festival and the JM
Jeunesses Musicales
Jeunesses Musicales International is the largest youth music NGO in the world, created in Brussels, Belgium in 1945 with the mission to "enable young people to develop through music across all boundaries"...
International Clarinet Competition in Belgrade
Belgrade
Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. According to official results of Census 2011, the city has a population of 1,639,121. It is one of the 15 largest cities in Europe...
, Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia refers to three political entities that existed successively on the western part of the Balkans during most of the 20th century....
in 1971. In 1972 he represented Canada
Canada
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at the 26th Congress of the International Federation of JM at Augsburg
Augsburg
Augsburg is a city in the south-west of Bavaria, Germany. It is a university town and home of the Regierungsbezirk Schwaben and the Bezirk Schwaben. Augsburg is an urban district and home to the institutions of the Landkreis Augsburg. It is, as of 2008, the third-largest city in Bavaria with a...
. Additionally, he was a semi-finalist in the Budapest
Budapest
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International Clarinet Competition in 1970.
He was a jury member on various competitions, including the 1987 Jeunesses Musicales
Jeunesses Musicales
Jeunesses Musicales International is the largest youth music NGO in the world, created in Brussels, Belgium in 1945 with the mission to "enable young people to develop through music across all boundaries"...
International Competition in Belgrade
Belgrade
Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. According to official results of Census 2011, the city has a population of 1,639,121. It is one of the 15 largest cities in Europe...
, along with Walter Boeykens
Walter Boeykens
Knight Walter Boeykens January 6, 1938 Bornem, Belgium is a Belgian conductor and a world renowned clarinetist. Boeykens has an impressive discography including several critically acclaimed performances that are testimony to his status as one of the most notable clarinetists of the 20th century...
(Belgium
Belgium
Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
), Thea King
Thea King
Dame Thea King DBE FRCM FGSM was a British clarinettist.Thea King was born in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, the daughter of Henry Walter Mayer King, the manager of a family engineering business, George. W. King Ltd., based in Hitchin then Stevenage, Hertfordshire, and his wife, Dorothea...
(UK), Ludwig Kurkiewicz (Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
), Milenko Stefanovic
Milenko Stefanovic
Milenko Stefanović is the most famous Serbian and Yugoslav clarinetist: a prizewinner in the international competitions in Moscow, Munich, Geneva and Prague, soloist who has achieved significant international career, long-time principal clarinetist of the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra and...
(Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia refers to three political entities that existed successively on the western part of the Balkans during most of the 20th century....
), Ernest Ackun
Ernest Ackun
Ernest Ačkun was a Yugoslav / Slovenian clarinetist.-Early life:Ernest Ačkun was born in Hrastnik, Slovenia, which was then part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia....
(Yugoslavia), Marko Rudzak (Yugoslavia) and Stjepan Rabuzin (Yugoslavia)
The Canadian Music Council named him artist of the year in 1989, and he was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada
Order of Canada
The Order of Canada is a Canadian national order, admission into which is, within the system of orders, decorations, and medals of Canada, the second highest honour for merit...
in 1997.