School of Music
Logan Campbell
Director and Assistant Professor of School of Music, and Director of Large Instrumental Ensembles
Mon: 11 a.m. -1 p.m.
Tue: 10 a.m. -1 p.m.
Logan Campbell enjoys a diverse career as a conductor, equally at home with symphonic repertoire for orchestra and wind band, pops, opera, and musical theatre. He serves as Director of the School of Music at Illinois Wesleyan University, as well as Director of Large Instrumental Ensembles as an Assistant Professor of Music. In August 2023, Campbell became Music Director of the Bloomington-Normal Youth Symphony. He previously held the position of Assistant Conductor with the Illinois Symphony Orchestra and Conductor of the Illinois Symphony Youth Orchestras. Previous academic positions include Music Director of the University of Illinois Springfield (UIS) Orchestra and instructor of applied voice and bassoon at UIS and Lincoln Land Community College.
Campbell founded Appalachia: A Southeastern Wind Symphony during his graduate studies at the University of Tennessee in 2018. This ensemble provided networking and performance opportunities for collegiate musicians and recent alumni from universities throughout the Southeast. Under Campbell’s leadership, Appalachia grew to represent more than 20 universities each concert cycle. He designed diverse, compelling programs intended to engage and inform audiences of all ages.
During his graduate studies, Campbell also served as a conductor with the Knoxville Symphony Youth Orchestra Association, leading the Chamber Orchestra, the organization’s second-highest ensemble. He has worked as a guest, rehearsal, and cover conductor with the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, Scruffy City Orchestra, Morristown Community Orchestra, and Brevard Philharmonic. As a student at the University of Tennessee, he conducted and performed with the UT Symphony Orchestra, UT Opera Orchestra, UT Chamber Orchestra, VolOpera, and UT Opera Theatre.
A bass-baritone, Campbell has performed with UT Opera Theatre in La Finta Giardiniera and Carmen, Knoxville Opera in Lucia di Lammermoor, Furman Lyric Opera in Die Zauberflöte, and the Franco-American Vocal Academy in Le Nozze di Figaro and Bastien und Bastienne. He has also appeared as bass soloist with the UT Chamber Singers in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony at the Tennessee Theatre and in Handel’s Messiah.
Campbell’s international experience is centered in Germany. Selected as an ambassador for the U.S. Department of State-funded Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange for Young Professionals, he lived in Leipzig for a year, studying German language, politics, and music. During that time, he worked as a conducting assistant at Oper Leipzig and with the Gewandhaus Orchestra. He also performed as an oboist with STUBA, the Youth Wind Symphony of Saxony, and the Leipzig Wind Ensemble.
Campbell holds a Bachelor of Music in Music Education from Furman University and Master of Music degrees in Voice Performance and Orchestral Conducting from the University of Tennessee. He is the recipient of the Thomas Fulton Career Development Award for outstanding work as a conducting and voice student at UT. His principal conducting teachers include James Fellenbaum, Leslie Hicken, Hugh Floyd, and Edvard Tchivzhel.