Biographical information taken from 1994 CCCMS/CCCHS Winter Concert program.

    Bill Campbell is currently the Trumpet Professor at the University of Kansas where he has taught since 1992.  He received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from the Eastman School of Music, of the University of Rochester.  At the age of seventeen he won the position of Fourth and Assistant Principal Trumpet with the Rochester Philharmonic, with whom he played for six years while attending Eastman.  After completing his masters degree in music performance, Bill auditioned for and won the position of Principal Trumpet in the Orchestra del Maggio Musical Fiorentino in Florence, Italy.  He played with this orchestra 1985 to 1992.  With the orchestra from Florence he has toured five continents and made numerous recordings with some of the best conductors in the world.  As a soloist, Bill has performed with such world renown conductors as Zubin Mehta, Eduardo Mata and Donald Hunsburger.


    Mr. Campbell played Soliloquy for Trumpet by John J. Morrissey with the CCCMS Concert Band.  With the CCCHS Concert Band he performed Trumpet in the Night by Harry Simeone and Cousins arranged by Ray Cramer with student Vanessa Thompson on baritone.