Edmund Campion is a 2016 Guggenheim Fellow who has composed for the Contemporary Gugak Orchestra, the Ensemble Intercontemporain, the Santa Rosa Symphony, and others. Other commissions include the 2011 Commande d’etat for Wavelike and Diverse, written for Les Percussion des Strasbourg; Auditory Fiction (2011), commissioned by Société Générale for Radio France; Small Wonder (The Butterfly Effect) (2012), commissioned by the Serge Koussevitzky Foundation for the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players; and Auditory Fiction II (2014), written for the ECO Ensemble for the Venice Music Biennale. Born in Dallas, Campion studied composition at the University of Texas and Columbia University and spent several years in France studying with composer Gérard Grisey. In 1993, he composed the piece Losing Touch, a mainstay in the repertoire for percussion and electronics. His works are heard in concert halls worldwide and a monograph CD by the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players is available on Albany records. Cambion teaches at the University of California, Berkeley.
Portrait by Shih Hui Chen
