Jan Hendrickse is a composer and multi-instrumentalist specializing in traditional wind instruments. He has performed in many parts of the world, often collaborating with musicians from overseas. Recordings and performances have included work with Howard Shore and Ornette Coleman, and he has appeared as a featured soloist with The Ulster Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonia Viva and musicians from the London Sinfonietta.

He is in demand for film, TV and theatre work, and film credits include ‘The Lord of the Rings’, ‘The Passion of the Christ’, ‘Troy’, ‘Two Brothers’, ‘Beloved’, ‘The Cell’, ‘Chocolat’, ‘The Truth about Charlie’ and ‘Four Feathers’.

Jan has been the presenter of the BBC Internet broadcast journey around Central Asia ‘The musical Nomad’ (www.bbc.co.uk/nomad), and has performed in productions for The RSC and the National theatre including ‘Tales from Ovid’ ‘The Roman Actor’ and ‘Romeo and Juliet’.

He has often performed and recorded with UK artists such as Tunde Jegede and Byron Wallen playing flutes and neys (Middle Eastern flute). He teaches at the Guildhall school of music and Drama and has run community and education projects for many organisations including the Barbican Centre, the Philharmonia Orchestra and BBC Proms as well as running arts development projects in Tanzania and Palestine. He is currently researching trans-cultural arts practice for the Guildhall School of Music.

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Dirk Campbell was born in Ismailia, Egypt and lived in Kenya from age 1 to age 11. His family moved to England in 1962. He studied composition at the Royal College of Music with Edwin Roxburgh, passing his ARCM diploma in 1974. He composed the score to Anderson's BAFTA-winning animated film Dreamland Express in 1983. His score to David Anderson’s BAFTA-nominated Deadsy was itself nominated for the 1989 British Animation Awards.

In addition to television commercials, films and documentaries, Dirk Campbell's output includes dance and choral music. His opera/ballet The Conference of the Birds was performed in 1994 at the Place Theatre, London. His CD Music From a Round Tower was ranked among the top releases in the international Green Dolphin critics' awards for 1997. He is also a professional performer on folk wind instruments such as duduk, kaval and uilleann pipes and has been featured as solo artist in works by contemporary composers including Sir John Tavener, as well on recent film scores including The Last King of Scotland, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Laws of Attraction and In This World.

Dirk Campbell has studied traditional wind instruments with Theodoros Kekes in Athens and Djivan Gasparian in Armenia as well as with musicians from the Kurdish, Iranian, Albanian and Greek communities in London. He is a visting lecturer at Goldsmiths College, London and at Bath Spa University. For more details go to

Performing at the Drama Music School, Greece, in 2004

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