Edmund Campion

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.