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Natalie Campbell
Angelus Choir Director

Natalie Campbell serves on the faculty at Augustana University as Instructor of Voice and Director of Angelus.  She is also the collaborative pianist for the South Dakota Symphony Chorus.  Prior to joining the faculty at Augustana in 2016, she taught private voice at the University of Sioux Falls and Southwest Minnesota State University.  As an educator, she has taught elementary and middle school vocal music and served as director of the Sioux Falls Children's Choir and associate director for the Tucson Girls Chorus as well as maintained a private piano and voice studio.

Campbell received a Bachelor of Music degree in Piano and Vocal Music Education from Houghton College in New York, and has pursued graduate studies in Piano and Chamber Music at Rice University in Houston, TX.  She holds a Master's degree in Vocal Performance from the University of South Dakota, where she studied with Dr. Brandon Hendrickson.  While at USD, she was the winner of the university's annual concerto competition and performed the roles of Dido in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas and Monica in Menotti's The Medium.

As a soprano soloist, Campbell's performances include Mendelssohn's Psalm 42, Mozart's Coronation Mass, Orff's Carmino Burana, Fauré's Requiem, Handel's Messiah, Haydn's Missa brevis, and a Midwest premiere of Shawn Kirchner's Songs of Ascent.  In 2018 she was selected as a participant in the prestigious American Bach Soloists Academy in San Francisco.  She has also served as an Artist in Residence for the inaugural International Choral Conducting Masterclass and Young Artist Program at Baylor University.

Campbell has performed as a soloist and ensemble singer with many professional vocal ensembles, including Transept, The Rose Ensemble, Mercury Baroque, Cantare Houston, and the Grammy®-nominated South Dakota Chorale.