Philip Camp, Ph.D.

Dr. Philip Camp serves as Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities for Lubbock Christian University. 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 LCU 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 LCU’s award winning contemporary a cappella ensemble, Best Friends, in 2018.

LCU 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 LCU 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 SWACDAconference, 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.
• LCU Choirs, Outreach Concert tour in Northern Ireland, May, 2024
• Conductor, LCU and South Plains College Combined Choir Performances, April 9, 2024
• Conductor, LCU 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 Dark Night of the Soul and Luminous Night of the Soul, Spring, 2017, Benjamin Britten’s Rejoice in the Lamb, and Dan Forrest’s Requiem for the Living.
• Director, outreach concert tour in Anchorage and Wasilla, Alaska, 2022.
• 2006-present, Director Master Follies Hosts and Hostesses