About Me
Rich Campbell is an award winning composer whose works have been performed by the Australian Boys Choir, VocalEssence, SACRA/ PROFANA, Octarium, The Young People’s Chorus of New York, The Manhattan Choral Ensemble, Polyhymnia, Musica Intima, Pacific Edge Voices, Pacific Women’s Chorus, Harrisburg Gay Men’s Chorus, San Francisco Bay Area Chamber Choir, Chester River Chorale, Wasatch Chorale Ars Nova, Village SIngers of Westchester, Glass Menagerie Chorus, College of St. Rose, San Francisco State, Georgia College, University of Northern Iowa, University of Rhode Island, Dordt College, Florida State, St. Andrew’s College, MIT, Voices Boston, Cantabile Youth Singers, OAKE National Honors Choir, Idaho All State, Arkansas All State, York County Honors Choir, Mennonite Youth Choir, Uncommon Music Festival, Philadelphia Center City Opera Theatre, Brass Initiative, C Street Brass and ensembles at Indiana State’s Contemporary Music Festival and the Southern ACDA Conference. He has appeared playing his compositions on film and television, including SMASH and The Devil’s Advocate. His theatrical collaboration Puppy Love was staged at NY’s PS 122. He is the co-writer of songs on a Grammy nominated album by The Triplets and an alumnus of the Crane School of Music, SUNY Potsdam, where he studied composition with Robert Washburn and piano with James Ball. He lives in NY and has run 27 marathons. www.richcampbell.us/composer.htm
Dr. Iris Levine conducts VOX Femina in the premiere of the SSAA voicing of "In Those Years, No One Slept." A setting of the haunting poem by Claudia Serea. 11/2/25 in Los Angeles
“Border” is an artistic response to the immigration crisis around the globe (especially in the United States). The opening passage is: “Border, sanctuary, asylum, bridges not walls.” The text draws from (and paraphrases) several sources: contemporary medi...
A request by artistic director Susan Glass for a new choral work addressing climate change resulted in the creation of “Planet Earth Lullaby.” Composer Rich Campbell contemplated and determined the piece would be both an alarm for help and a call to actio...
“Border” is an artistic response to the immigration crisis around the globe (especially in the United States). The opening passage is: “Border, sanctuary, asylum, bridges not walls.” The text draws from (and paraphrases) several sources: contemporary medi...
A setting of a short love poem by Gertrude Stein, this brief piece is built on a round - and so can be learned quickly. It was a winning selection in the inaugural Pioneering Voices composition competition held by Mount Holyoke College.
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Depression, isolation, alienation: themes addressed in this setting of Robert Frost’s metaphorical text. The choir paints images over a repeated jazz piano bass line. The sense of walking at night is evoked as are the inner-blues of the poem. Rhythmic and...
A powerful declaration for freedom and equality, Rich Campbell’s “Border” is angular, emotional, and desperate. The text draws from (and paraphrases) several sources: contemporary media, Emma Lazarus’ “The New Colossus,” the Bible’s Matthew 25:31-40, curr...
“The Red Wheelbarrow,” an innovative environmental/imagist poem I first read as a teenager, struck me as an alluring and joyful means to immerse in a commission by Austin's Inversion Ensemble for their Planet Home project. The score blossomed during a fel...
The text of “In Those Years, No One Slept” is a scene from a time of conflict/war, by Romanian-American immigrant Claudia Serea. The score is at once rhythmic and exciting, haunting and unsettling. It was a winner of the 2018 Uncommon Music Festival Compo...
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