CAMPBELL, Dirk:

    Dirk Campbell was born in 1950 in Ismailia, Egypt and lived in Kenya from age 1 to age 11. His family moved to England in 1962. He composed the score to David Anderson's BAFTA-winning animated film Dreamland Express in 1983; his score to Anderson’s BAFTA-nominated Deadsy was itself nominated for the 1989 British Animation Awards Best Music.
   He has composed award-winning music for television commercials, films and documentaries. 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 third in the international Green Dolphin critics' awards for 1997. He is also a professional performer in film and television on folk wind instruments such as duduk, gaida, kaval, ney and uilleann pipes and has been featured as solo artist in works by contemporary composers such as Sir John Tavener.
   Dirk Campbell has studied traditional wind instruments with Theodoros Kekes in Greece and Djivan Gasparian in Armenia as well as with musicians from the Kurdish, Iranian, Albanian and Greek communities in London. He is a visiting lecturer at Goldsmiths College, London.

Released works (Hermes Records) : Safar