DIRK CAMPBELL
Composer and ethnic instrument
specialist
Click on a picture below for instrumental performances and information. Each picture takes you through to a class of instrument which I have played in film, TV and album recordings and in concert, and you can listen to the sounds.
PERFORMANCE CREDITS:
FILMS INCLUDE
Aladdin
The Mummy
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
TV INCLUDES
The State
Indian Summers
The Virgin Queen
THEATRE INCLUDES
Hamlet (RSC)
Julius Caesar (RSC)
Morte d'Arthur (RSC)
ney and kaval
Iranian ney
Ney is the ancient flute of the middle East. The word is of Persian origin and means 'reed' as well as 'flute'; neys are made of a certain type of reed cane.
There are two main types of ney technique: middle Eastern and Iranian. Middle Eastern Eastern embouchure employs pursed lips with the instrument held at an angle to the mouth; Iranian embouchure employs tongue and teeth. The Iranian ney has a powerful breathy sound in the low octave; the middle Eastern ney produces a stronger upper register.
The kaval is found in Turkey and the Balkans. It is made of wood rather than reed cane and is played the same way as the ney. The kaval is fully chromatic, making it suitable as a substitute for the ney in parts requiring equal temperament.
Balkan kaval
Performing in Greece 2004
Turkish kaval
All arrangements and performances by Dirk Campbell *
Composed by Dirk Campbell
Composed by Dirk Campbell
Traditional Bulgarian
Traditional Turkish
Traditional Azeri
* apart from Jan Hendrickse bass flute on Gan Kino
Ney players left to right:
Turkish, Iranian, Egyptian, ancient Egyptian