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)