A Multi-Talented Musician
Logan Campbell enjoys a budding career as a conductor, equally at home with Symphonic repertoire, Pops, Opera, and Musical Theatre. Logan recently concluded his 2-year tenure as the Assistant Conductor of the Illinois Symphony Orchestra, Conductor of the Illinois Symphony Youth Orchestras and the Music Director and Conductor of the Orchestra program at the University of Illinois Springfield, where he also taught applied voice lessons. He was also a Private Applied Voice Instructor at Lincoln Land Community College. He is now a resident of the Twin Cities where he works with area high school choral and band programs including Wayzata, Eden Prairie, and Mound Westonka. He sings at the Cathedral of St. Paul where he is a bass section leader and performs throughout the cities on musical theatre productions as Music Director. He is currently working on "Mamma Mia."
Logan is the Artistic Director and Conductor of Appalachia: A Southeastern Wind Symphony, now in his 5th season with the organization. Logan started this accomplished wind group while in his graduate studies, but has continued to grow and develop this unique regional ensemble. Aiming to offer networking opportunities for collegiate students and recent alumni from Southeastern universities, Appalachia has grown tremendously well and now has over 15 universities represented. The group travels to regional cities to bring wind music to the communities that many in the group call home. Logan leads this group by designing compelling programs that are exciting and informative for all ages.
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During his graduate studies (2018-2020), Logan worked with the Knoxville Symphony Youth Orchestra Association. The KSYOA consists of 6 orchestras and he was appointed conductor of the Chamber Orchestra, the organization's 2nd highest group. Logan also worked as a guest conductor, rehearsal conductor, or cover conductor with area orchestras like the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, Scruffy City Orchestra, Morristown Community Orchestra, Charleston Symphony Orchestra and Brevard Philharmonic. As a student at UT, he worked with the UT Symphony Orchestra, UT Opera Orchestra, UT Chamber Orchestra, VolOpera, and UT Opera Theatre.
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As a Bass-baritone, Logan has performed with the UT Opera Theatre from 2018-2020 in productions of La Finta Giardiniera and Carmen, Knoxville Opera in 2019 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. More recently, Logan was featured in a faculty recital at the University of Illinois Springfield in February 2021 and as the Bass soloist in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, performed at the Tennessee Theatre with the University of Tennessee Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Singers in February 2020.
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Logan has performed internationally, mostly in Germany. Selected as an ambassador for the State Department funded program, The Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange for Young Professionals, he lived in Leipzig, Germany for a year and studied German language, politics, and music. He worked as a conducting assistant at Oper Leipzig and with the Gewandhaus Orchester. Outside of conducting, he performed as an oboist with STÜBA, the Youth Wind Symphony of Saxony, and the Leipzig Wind Ensemble.
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Logan Campbell holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Education from Furman University, and holds a double Masters of Music degree in Voice Performance and Orchestral Conducting from the University of Tennessee. Logan is the recipient of the Thomas Fulton Career Development Award for his outstanding work as a conducting and voice student at UT. His primary conducting teachers were James Fellenbaum, Dr. Leslie Hicken, Dr. Hugh Floyd, and Edvard Tchivzhel.