Born in Marseille in 1968, Régis Campo is a composer who divides his musical creation between vocal, concert, opera and film music. He studied at the Conservatoire de Marseille, then at the Conservatoire National de Région de Paris, before joining the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, where he studied with Gérard Grisey. In 1995, he was awarded First Prize in composition at the CNSMD de Paris.
From 1992 onwards, he met a number of personalities whom he regarded as mentors, including Henri Dutilleux, Vladimir Cosma and Edison Denisov, who considered him “one of the most talented of his generation”. From 1999 to 2001, he was a resident at the Villa Médicis in Rome. His repertoire – comprising over three hundred works – covers a wide range of instrumental and vocal formations.
His style, often described as playful and colorful, emphasizes melodic invention, humor, joy and vitality of tempo. Many artists have performed his music, including Felicity Lott, Kent Nagano, Romain Leleu, Fazıl Say, Jay Gottlieb, Zoltán Kocsis, Carolina Eyck, Bertrand Chamayou, Pieter Wispelwey, Laurent Korcia, Théo Ould and numerous orchestras and ensembles such as the Ensemble intercontemporain, the London Sinfonietta, Nieuw Ensemble Amsterdam, Ensemble Modern Frankfurt, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, Orchestre symphonique de Berkeley, Orchestre philharmonique de Radio-France, Orchestre national d’Île-de-France, Orchestre National de France, RAI National Symphony Orchestra, Quatuors Diotima, Tana, Parisii. ..
At the end of 2018, a biography was dedicated to him: Régis Campo, Musique de l’émerveillement by Thierry Vagne. Released in 2019, his album Street-art receives a Choc de Classica, featuring his work Une Solitude de l’espace, which is awarded the Grand Prix Lycéen des Compositeurs 2020. In 2021, a film dedicated to him, “ Régis Campo: Strange Beautiful Music” by Quentin Lazzarotto, was released. That same year, Régis Campo was elected to the Académie des Sciences, Lettres et Arts de Marseille as an associate member.In October 2022, the composer conducted the world premiere of his work Zoo Circus by the Ars Nova ensemble at the Institut de France’s Auditorium André et Liliane Bettencourt.
