Dirk Campbell's skills as a composer are augmented by his experience in a wide variety of instrumental traditions. He has learned the traditional music of Ireland, Scotland, the Balkans, Greece and Turkey, and has picked up instrumental techniques from Sardinia, Calabria, Algeria and Egypt; sub-Saharan Africa and South Africa; India, Indonesia and China. He has studied with Djivan Gasparian in Armenia, Theodhoros Kekes and Ghiannis Aramatanidhis in Greece, and with musicians from the Kurdish, Iranian and Albanian communities in London. He is a visiting lecturer at Goldsmiths College. He performs with Jan Hendrickse as the World Wind Band.
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PERFORMANCE CREDITS INCLUDE
2008 'I'll be the Devil' RSC Tricycle Theatre (composer Peter Cowdrey): Celtic wire-strung harp, gaida, dudy, early English bagpipes, uilleann pipes, zampogna, mezoued
2008 'The Passion' (BBC, composer Debbie Wiseman): duduk
2008 'The House of Saddam' (BBC1, composer Samuel Sim): duduk, ney
2007 'Summer Heat' (Independent feature, composer Christian Henson): kora
2007 'Caotica Ana' (independent feature, composer Jocelyn Pook): ney, duduk, Native American flute
2007 'Sa Majesté Minor' (independent feature, composer Javier Navarette): kaval, duduk, nyatiti (Kenyan lyre)
2006 'The Last King of Scotland' Oscar and BAFTA winner (independent feature, composer Alex Heffes): endongo (Ugandan lyre)
2006 'The Virgin Queen' (BBC2, composer Martin Phipps): kaval, duduk, kora
2006 'Julius Caesar' RSC Stratford and Ann Arbor, USA (composer Adrian Lee): zurna, arghoul, filimbi, kaval, cornu, duduk, flutes
2005 'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire' (Warner, composer Patrick Doyle): duduk, Turkish kaval, Highland bagpipes
2003–2006 'The Veil of the Temple' (Sir John Tavener) London, New York, Amsterdam, Brighton: duduk
2002 'Pericles' RSC London Round House and RST Stratford (composer Shaun Davey): gaida, duduk, ney, kaval, clarinet
2002 'The Roman Actor' RSC Stratford and Gielgud Theatre London (composer Adrian Lee): ney, bansuri, Indian shawm, orchestral flutes
2000 'Fall and Resurrection' (Sir John Tavener) St Paul's Cathedral: kaval
1998 'Tales from Ovid' RSC Stratford and Strasbourg (composer Adrian Lee): ney, bansuri, Indian shawm, orchestral flutes, percussion etc.
1998 'Ronin' (MGM, composer Elia Cmiral): duduk
1997 'The Thirteenth Warrior' (Disney, composer Graham Revell): uilleann pipes
Numerous performances on film and television scores, pop albums, library CDs and concerts of contemporary music.
INSTRUMENTS PLAYED
Flutes
Slovak fujara
Indian bansuri
Irish flute
Indonesian suling
Arab ney
Persian ney
Turkish kaval
Balkan kaval
Native American flute
Shawms
Turkish zurna
Persian sorna
Indian shenai
Chalumeaux
Armenian duduk
Greek clarinet
Reedpipes
Arab arghoul
Egyptian zummara
Sardinian launeddas
Bagpipes
Irish uilleann pipes
Scottish highland pipes
Balkan gaida
Pontic tulum
Greek island tsabouna
Arab mezoued
Italian zampogna
Strings
West African harp (kora)
Kenyan lyre (nyatiti)
Ugandan lyre (endongo)
Greek lute (laouto)
Miscellaneous
Melodeon
Pipe-and-tabor
Animal horns, conch
Moroccan trumpet (nafir)
Tibetan trumpet (dungchen)
Mongolian overtone singing
Percussion - various (Irish,
middle Eastern, African)
Dirk Campbell