Douglas Campbell
Douglas Campbell is Professor Emeritus at Michigan State University, where he was Professor of Horn for 45 years. He is a highly regarded horn teacher. He also started what became regular regional horn workshops and hosted an IHS International Workshop.
Doug was born in Wichita Falls TX in 1924. He started playing trumpet at age nine and switched to horn four years later. He played in his school band and orchestra and in the Wichita Falls Symphony. At age 16, he enrolled at North Texas State University. While a student there, he performed with the Oklahoma City Symphony and the San Antonio Symphony. He earned a bachelor's degree in 1944, then went to Eastman School of Music, where he studied with Arkady Yegudkin and Morris Secon and earned an MM in 1946 and a PhD in 1957.
Doug has played with the National, Houston, Grand Rapids, Santa Fe, and Lansing Symphony Orchestras. He was hornist with the Richards Quintet, which toured the US, Canada, and China; played for a State Dinner at the White House; and has issued two recordings, with Crystal Records and Musical Heritage Society.
In addition to his position at Michigan State University, Doug has been visiting professor at the University of Oregon and taught at the Interlochen Center for the Arts and New England Music Camp. Randall Faust composed Harmonielehre for Solo Horn in 1996 in his honor.
Doug, with Neill Sanders, hosted an event in 1970 known as "The Horn Fandango," which set the stage for the development of regional horn workshops. He hosted the IHS International Workshop at Michigan State University in 1978 and the Great Lakes Regional Workshop in the 1980s.
Doug received the Punto Award at the IHS workshop in Eugene OR in 1996. A profile appears in the November 1996 issue of The Horn Call.