Performer credits

INSTRUMENTS PLAYED

Flutes

Arab ney

Balkan kaval

Indian bansuri

Irish flute

Indonesian suling

American native flute

Brazilian nose flute

Persian ney

Slovak fujara

Tanzanian filimbi

Turkish kaval

Quena

Chalumeaux

Armenian duduk

Greek clarinet

Ancient Egyptian reedpipe

Double and triple pipes

Arab arghoul

Egyptian zummara

Sardinian launeddas

Donali (Baluchistan)

Shawms

Turkish zurna

Persian sorna

Indian shenai

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's skills as a composer are augmented by his experience in a wide variety of instrumental traditions. He has studied the traditional music and instrumental techniques of Ireland, Scotland, the Balkans, Greece, Turkey, Sardinia, Calabria, Algeria, Egypt, sub-Saharan Africa, South Africa, India, Indonesia and China. He has studied with Hariprasad Chaurasia, Djivan Gasparian, Ayub Ogada, Giannis Aramatanidis, and with musicians from the Kurdish, Iranian and Albanian communities in London. He is a visiting lecturer at Goldsmiths College and London Metropolitan University.

See here for comments about Dirk Campbell by film and TV composers.

See below for a current list of instrumental skills

PERFORMANCE CREDITS INCLUDE

2010 Morte D'Arthur (RSC, dir. Greg Doran, composer Adrian Lee) harp, shawm, cornu, kaval, duduk, cornemuse, Irish flute

2010 Joanna Lumley's Nile (BBC1 dir. various, composer Debbie Wiseman) duduk, ney

2010 12th Night (RSC, dir. Greg Doran, composer Paul Englishby) bansuri, kaval, duduk

2010 Eagle of the Ninth (Dir. Kevin MacDonald, composer Alex Heffes) animal horns, primitive trumpets

2009 Peter Pan (Dir. Ben Harrison, composer Ben Wallfisch) duduk

2009 State of Play starring Helen Mirren and Russell Crowe (Dir. Kevin MacDonald, composer Alex Heffes) duduk

2009 'Nature's Great Events' with David Attenborough (BBC2, composer Ben Salisbury) duduk, American native flute

2009 'Iran and the West' (BBC2, composer Samuel Sim) duduk

2008 'Survivors' (BBC1, composer Edmund Butt) duduk, suling

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' (BBC1, 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

2006 'The Last King of Scotland' Oscar and BAFTA winner (independent feature, composer Alex Heffes): nyatiti, filimbi

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 (dir. Greg Doran, composer Adrian Lee): ney, bansuri, Indian shawm, orchestral flutes, clarinet, harp, percussion etc.

2000 'Fall and Resurrection' (Sir John Tavener) St Paul's Cathedral: kaval

1999 'Tales from Ovid' RSC Stratford and Strasbourg (dir. Tim Supple, composer Adrian Lee): ney, bansuri, Indian shawm, orchestral flutes, percussion etc.

1998 'The Wingless Bird' (ITV, composer Colin Towns) uilleann pipes

1998 'Ronin' (MGM, composer Elia Cmiral): duduk

1997 'The Thirteenth Warrior' (Disney, composer Graham Revell): uilleann pipes, whistle, medieval bagpipes