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Born November 7, 1964 (age 52) ( 1964-11-07 ) Bronx, New York Occupation Film Composer
Choral and Orchestral Composer
professor Albums Pokémon: The First Movie Original Motion Picture Score Music director Frontera, Royal Kill, Kandisha, 35 and Ticking, Winter of Frozen Dreams Similar Darren Tate, John Lissauer, Russ Parr, Babar Ahmed, Dante Tomaselli Profiles | ||
Kenneth Lampl (born November 7, 1964) is an American composer and lecturer known for his film, television and choral music. He is the Head of the Australian National University School of Music.
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Biography
Born in the Bronx, New York, Lampl studied saxophone with Paul Jeffrey and Sahib Shihab at Rutgers University and was a member of the Rutgers University Jazz Ensemble After college he went on tour with jazz drummer Chico Hamilton giving performances at Lincoln Center, the Apollo Theater and the JVC Jazz Festival. Lampl began his first classical composition studies with Pulitzer Prize winning composer Charles Wuorinen in the graduate program at Rutgers University. Lampl's first international recognition came with the winning of the "Prix Ravel" in composition from the American Conservatory in Fontainebleau, France and his first orchestral piece "Parallax" won the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra Young Composers Award, the ASCAP Awards for Young Composers. and the Joseph H. Bearns Prize in Composition from Columbia University. In 1996 Lampl received his DMA in Composition from the Juilliard School studying with Milton Babbitt and John Corigliano, he remained on the faculty there until 2000. At the Juilliard School he received the Gretchanov Memorial Prize in Composition and fellowships from the foundations of Henry Mancini, George Gershwin and Richard Rodgers. In 1998 he was awarded a composer fellowship to the Tanglewood Music Festival where he studied film scoring with John Williams.
Film Scoring
Lampl's first film score "Six Miles of Eight Feet" premiered at the Sundance Film Festival 2000 and won a Student Academy Awards as well as Best Original Score from the NYU First Run Film Festival. His next score "Empty" won Best Narrative Short at the Cinequest San Jose Film Festival and a Student Emmy award. His first feature length scoring came with composing music for Pokémon: The First Movie and Pokémon: Mewtwo Returns.
He has scored over 70 films including: Frontera (starring Ed Harris and Eva Longoria, 35 and Ticking (starring Kevin Hart and Nicole Ari Parker, Winter of Frozen Dreams (starring Thora Birch and Keith Carradine) and Royal Kill (starring Pat Morita and Eric Roberts), as well as the television series Born Again Virgin and Saints & Sinners He frequently collaborates with electronic artist and producer Darren Tate.
Choral Music
Lampl is a prolific composer of choral music. His first choral work in Hebrew "Adon Olam" was premiered and recorded by the Zamir Chorale of Boston. Other notable choral works include: "Jerusalem", "After the Wind" and "Dirshu Adonai" which were compositions featured by the American Choral Directors Association. His choral music is currently published by Walton Music, Santa Barbara Music Publishing and Colla Voce Music.
Australia
Lampl was recruited to the Australian National University in Canberra in 2015.
In February 2017, the ANU announce that he had been appointed Head of the ANU School of Music.