David Campbell (composer)

David Richard Campbell is an arranger, composer and conductor. He has worked on over 450 gold and platinum albums including, FuturesexLovesounds , The 2nd Law , Invincible , Spirit , Aaliyah , Fallen , Meteora , BDay , Bangerz , The Astonishing , and various albums by his son Beck.

Campbell was born in Toronto, Ontario. His father, D. Warren Campbell, was from Winnipeg, Manitoba, but was attending seminary in Toronto in order to become a Presbyterian minister. Campbell subsequently was assigned to a church in Pittsburgh, taking his family with him, before settling in Seattle when Campbell was 10. Campbell took up the violin at age 9. At age 12, he began venturing into orchestration, studying the works of Bartk, Schoenberg and Stravinsky.

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