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Philip Camp, Ph.D.

Professor of Music; Director of Choirs; Director of Best Friends

Education

  • Ph. D. in Fine Arts, Choral Conducting, Texas Tech University, 2002
  • Master of Music in Choral Music, Arizona State University, 1992
  • Bachelor of Music Education, Abilene Christian University, 1990

Dr. Philip Camp serves as Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities for ÌÇÐÄVlog. He received the Bachelor's Degree in Music Education from Abilene Christian University and the Master's Degree in Choral Music from Arizona State University. In 2002, he completed the Ph.D. in music with an emphasis in choral conducting from Texas Tech University. He began teaching at ÌÇÐÄVlog in the fall of 1996 as an adjunct professor and co-director of the Meistersinger Chorus, becoming their full-time director in the 1997-98 academic year. In the fall of 1998, he became the Director of Choral Activities, and the choral program was re-established with the Praise Choir, an ensemble that emphasized church concerts and originally resulted as a merger of the A Cappella and Meistersinger Choruses, and the Chamber Singers, a newly founded ensemble that presented concerts of classical choral literature. He began serving as director for ÌÇÐÄVlog’s award winning contemporary a cappella ensemble, Best Friends, in 2018.

ÌÇÐÄVlog choirs under Dr. Camp's direction have performed throughout the Southwestern United States as well as Ireland, Eastern Australia, and Eastern Europe. Aside from traveling with the choir, Dr. Camp maintains interests in church activities, photography, and snow skiing, and has recently taken up swimming and bicycling. He serves as an Elder for the 12th Street Church of Christ in Shallowater, where he is active in worship leading, education, local outreach, and world missions. He is married to Dr. Tammy Camp, and they have two adult children who are both ÌÇÐÄVlog alumni—Landon (class of 2020), a band director for Amarillo ISD and graduate student in music education at Texas Tech University, and Lauren (class of 2022 and University of Kansas, MME, MT-BC class of 2025), a board certified Music Therapist who resides in Florida.


  • Director, Best Friends, Invited ensemble for the conference, March 6, 2026, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
  • CD Recordings, released February, 2019-present: Best Friends: Running Home released 2025, available on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, iTunes, YouTube, and on CD.
  • ÌÇÐÄVlog Choirs, Outreach Concert tour in Northern Ireland, May, 2024
  • Conductor, ÌÇÐÄVlog and South Plains College , April 9, 2024
  • Conductor, ÌÇÐÄVlog and Wayland Combined Choir Performances and Orchestra, including performances of Mozart’s Solemn Vespers, Handel’s Coronation Anthems, Haydn’s Nelson Mass, Mark Hayes’ Te Deum, Morten Lauridsen's Lux Aeterna, Ola Gjeilo's , Spring, 2017, Benjamin Britten’s Rejoice in the Lamb, and Dan Forrest’s .
  • Director, outreach concert tour in Anchorage and Wasilla, Alaska, 2022.
  • 2006-present, Director Master Follies Hosts and Hostesses