Stuart Campbell – in Memoriam

Abstract

As most readers of the journal will know, Stuart Campbell died very suddenly at the end of 2017 after a long and distinguished career in both music and Russian. Stuart played a key role in the Centenary of Russian Celebrations at Glasgow University – in fact, in April 2016, as the ‘preview’ event for the Centenary, he gave the Alexander Lazarev Lecture (in the presence of Mr Lazarev himself) and the last Centenary event was the final ‘Russkaya Cappella’ concert which Stuart conducted in December 2018, shortly before his untimely death. A memorial concert for Stuart Campbell has been organized on June 9th 2018 at 6pm in Glasgow University Memorial Chapel. ‘Russkaya Cappella’, Scotland’s Russian Choir and the choir which Stuart founded with his widow Dr Svetlana Zvereva, joined forces with the vocal soloists of the ‘Scottish Voices’ ensemble and this concert was a special fund-raising event in aid of Glasgow Universitybased cancer research (the Beatson Pebble Appeal).