Alexander Campkin Email & Phone Number

Alexander Campkin's music, described as 'fresh and attractive' by Gramophone, has been performed or broadcast in over two hundred countries. It features on over 20 CDs recorded by ensembles including the London Sinfonietta and the BBC Singers, and one of which was Christmas CD of the Year for Classic FM. My own musical journey was changed forever after medical symptoms and the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis aged 17. This was just months before I was due to perform with the Arad Philharmonic in Romania as a viola player.'MS changed my life. It stopped me playing viola. But it certainly didn’t stop me composing.'Alexander (b. 1984) has received over one hundred commissions from organisations including Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, The Royal Opera House, The Tallis Scholars, The Royal Ballet Sinfonia, The London Mozart Players, English Touring Opera, The BBC Performing Arts Fund, The Swedish Arts Council, New London Children's Choir, Episcopal School of Jacksonville Florida, The Joyful Company of Singers and The Theatinerkirche Vokalkapelle Munich. He has been appointed Composer in Residence of Ampersandance Contemporary Dance Company, The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Resound, The Fulham Camerata, The Cantus Ensemble, The Fourth Choir, The Portsmouth Grammar School and Neresheim Abbey in Germany. Alexander will have a commission premiered in the BBC Proms in the Royal Albert Hall, London in 2018. Alexander studied at Oxford University where was choral and organ scholar, the Royal Academy of Music, and the University for Performing Arts in Vienna.

Listed skills include Choral, Orchestral Music, Piano, Music, and 6 others.

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  Composer

  Edition Peters Group

  Jan 2016 - Present - London, United Kingdom