Edmund Campion is Distinguished Professor of Music in the Department of Music at the University of California, Berkeley. For more than thirty years, he has been active as a composer, performing artist, software developer, and collaborative artist.
Professor Campion served as Director of the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT) from 2014 to 2024 and Co-Director from 2024 to 2026.
In 2025, he co-organized the Korean Experimental Music Festival with UC Santa Cruz and Stanford University. For the festival, he composed new works for the Del Sol String Quartet and for live electronics with traditional Korean piri, the latter premiered by virtuoso Chi-Wan Park of the National Gugak Center in Seoul.
In 2024, Professor Campion was commissioned for a new ensemble piece with live electronics, premiered at the Festival Électrocution by the Ensemble Sillages and special guest improvising cellist Danielle DeGruttola.
In 2023, Campion composed The Velvet Algorithms for large ensemble and electronics, premiered by the ECO Ensemble with David Milnes, as well as a new commission for Marimba and Electronics, premiered at the Festival Empreintes in Lyon, France. As a 2016 Guggenheim Fellow, Mr. Campion composed for the Korean Traditional Contemporary Orchestra, an ensemble of musicians who perform on ancient Korean instruments. The new work was premiered at the 2017 Pacific Rim Festival in Santa Cruz, Cal Performances in Berkeley, and at the National Gugak Center in Seoul. In 2015, the Ensemble Intercontemporain co-commissioned Campion and audiovisual artist Kurt Hentschläger for the 25-minute Cluster X. The multimedia work premiered at the Philharmonie de Paris in October 2015 and toured the United States. In 2012, while Composer in Residence with the Santa Rosa Symphony, Campion was commissioned for The Last Internal Combustion Engine, written for full orchestra, Kronos Quartet, and electronics. The piece was premiered as part of the opening season of the new Green Music Center and featured the use of the CNMAT Spherical Loudspeaker Array. Joshua Kosman of the San Francisco Chronicle called the piece “a vivid and richly imagined concerto.” (http://edmundcampion.com) (http://cnmat.berkeley.edu).
Campion is the recipient of numerous awards, including the American Rome Prize, the Lili Boulanger Prize, the Paul Fromm Award at Tanglewood, and the Goddard Lieberson Fellowship given by the American Academy in Rome. Other commissions include the 2011 Commande d’etat for Wavelike and Diverse, written for Les Percussion des Strasbourg and released on the ensembles 50th anniversary Universal CD collection; 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; Auditory Fiction II (2014), written for the ECO Ensemble for the Venice Music Biennale. NEUMA records just released a CD called QUADRIVIUM.