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James Campbell
James Campbell has followed his muse to five television specials, more than 40 recordings, over 30 works commissioned, a Juno Award for Stolen Gems, a Roy Thomson Hall Award, Canada's Artist of the Year and the Order of Canada. Most recently, Campbell received The Queen's Golden Jubilee Medal. This was given on the occasion of the fiftieth Anniversary of the accession of Her Majesty the Queen to the Throne.

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. During the 2003-2004 season he premiered Dreaming of the Masters, a jazz concerto by Allan Gilliland, commissioned by the Edmonton Symphony and written for James Campbell, with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra and the Boston Pops. Last fall, Gilliland arranged Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story for Campbell and premiered it with the Kitchener Waterloo Symphony Orchestra.

Campbell has collaborated and performed with many of the world's great musicians including the late Glenn Gould and Aaron Copland; as well as chamber music tours with over 30 string quartets including the legendary Amadeus String Quartet, the Guarneri, Vermeer, New Zealand, St Lawrence, Fine Arts, and Allegri String Quartets.

Campbell is the subject of numerous features and cover stories in Clarinet Magazine (USA), Clarinet and Sax (UK), Piper Magazine (Japan), Gramophone, and in the book Clarinet Virtuosi of Today, by British author and clarinet authority Pamela Weston. In 1984, James Campbell was named Artistic Director of the annual summer chamber music festival in Parry Sound, Ontario, The Festival of the Sound. Mr. Campbell has taken the Festival to England on three occasions and it has been the subject of documentaries by BBC Television, CBC Television and TV Ontario. In 2003 Festival of the Sound opened its very own 500-seat concert hall, the Charles W Stockey Festival Performance Hall.

Since 1989, James Campbell makes Bloomington, Indiana his base during the academic year as Professor of Music at the prestigious Music School of Indiana University.

James Campbell and Charles Webb

Charles Webb
Charles H. Webb was the Dean of the Indiana University School of Music, the world's largest music school, for twenty-four years. In addition to his position as Dean, Webb has been the organist of the First United Methodist Church in Bloomington for 45 years and appears regularly as a concert organist, pianist and conductor. He has been the conductor of the Indianapolis Symphonic Choir, the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, and the Philharmonic Orchestra. As a pianist, Webb has toured throughout United States in duo-piano recitals and concerts with major orchestras.

Charles performs with Jim Campbell on Afternoon Reverie.