JAMES CAMPBELL
Clarinet

Called by the Toronto Star "Canada's pre-eminent clarinetist and wind soloist", James Campbell has performed in most of the world's major concert halls and with over 50 orchestras including the London Symphony, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal and the Russian Philharmonic.

Mr. Campbell graduated from the University of Toronto in 1971. He also studied at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California, and in Paris from 1971-73 with Yona Ettlinger.

He has also collaborated and performed with many of the world’s great musicians including the late Glenn Gould, Aaron Copland, and Samuel Sanders; Elly Ameling, Janos Starker, Menahem Pressler, the Borodin Trio, and toured with over 30 string quartets including the Penderecki, Amadeus, Guarneri, Fine Arts, Allegri, Manhattan, and Colorado String Quartets.

He has been a guest soloist with over 50 orchestras, including the London Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonic, the Toronto Symphony the National Radio-Television Orchestra of Spain, The Belgrade Symphony, the Vancouver Symphony, the Edmonton Symphony and the National Arts Centre Orchestra.

Since 1989 Campbell has been teaching clarinet at the prestigious Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.