Saint Philip’s and Joyful Noise will welcome William Campbell—award-winning composer, pianist, and longtime church musician—for a weekend of beauty, reflection, and renewal August 15 and 16, 2025.

A Pause for Beauty
7:00pm, Friday, August 15, in the Sanctuary
A contemplative concert of original music for solo piano and electronics. Blending classical elegance with ambient textures and heartfelt emotion, Williams’s music invites listeners into a spacious, prayerful quiet—what The Echo described as “light shining through.” This is a free concert, with donations supporting Saint Philip’s Food Pantry.

Joy in Times of Struggle
Saturday, August 16
2:30pm, Retreat in the Murphey Gallery
William will lead a retreat titled Joy in Times of Struggle, drawing from his decades of ministry, his life as a composer, and his deep commitment to finding hope through creative expression. Through music, reflection, and shared readings from within and beyond the Christian tradition, this gathering invites all to explore how joy can emerge even in the midst of hardship.

5:00pm, Eucharist in the Sanctuary
The retreat will conclude with a short contemporary Eucharistic service led by Fr Allen Breckenridge and featuring songs by William and members of Joyful Noise.

All are invited. Come as you are and experience the healing power of community, creativity, and grace.

ABOUT WILLIAM CAMPBELL
Composer and pianist William Campbell creates emotive and richly dimensional music that elevates listeners with its prismatic beauty. Known for the “sophisticated melodic spark and rising orchestral mood of his lauded soundtrack work,” (The Echo) Campbell embraces atmospheric post-minimalism with a signature focus on balanced facets of color. Throughout his catalog of film, symphonic, chamber, choral, and solo work, Campbell retains an expansive style that maximizes variations of shape and tone to resplendent effect.

Driven by compassion and a commitment to social justice work, Campbell is proud to partner on films that shine a light on difficult societal issues. This work includes scores for the Oscar-nominated movies Lifeboat (2021) and Hunger Ward (2021), which also won Best Original Score at the Luminous Frames International Film Festival. Campbell’s score for the film Sons & Daughters of Thunder (2020) received an Emmy Nomination for Best Musical Composition and won Best Original Music Score from the Iowa Motion Pictures Association.

Campbell is the recipient of multiple ASCAPPlus Awards, the Penfield Music Commission Project Composition Prize, a Waging Peace International Composition Special Honor, a Tucson/Pima Arizona Arts Fellowship, and awards from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and The Kennedy Center.

Campbell’s critically acclaimed solo albums, All In Due Time (2021) and Together We Rise (2023) which debuted at #11 on the Billboard Classical Crossover Chart, inspire listeners both in recording and in live, multimedia concert performances.

A dynamic pianist and inspired collaborator, he has led multiple new music groups, including Sonoran Consort, and has soloed with orchestras in North and South America. A resident of Portland, Oregon, Campbell is the Department Chair and Director of Compositional Activities at Linfield University.

Bio by Aligned Artistry. More information at WilliamCampbellMusic.com.