Kenneth Lampl
Kenneth Lampl is an American composer and lecturer known for his film, television and choral music. He is the former head of the Australian National University School of Music.
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, Lampl performed as part of jazz drummer Chico Hamilton's sextet, the Young Altos, performing at the 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, and taught Literature and Materials of Music there in the academic years 1996-1999. 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 work to appear on a feature-length film was composing as an 'additional composer' on the American re-score of Pokémon: The First Movie, with the same composition appearing on the films' TV special sequel, Pokémon: Mewtwo Returns.He has scored over 90 films including: Frontera, 35 and Ticking, Winter of Frozen Dreams and Royal Kill, as well as the television series Born Again Virgin and Saints & Sinners He frequently collaborates with electronic artist and producer Darren Tate and Kirsten Axelholm. His recent score to Seth Larney's film 2067 was listed in "The Best Scores of 2020" by the Film Music Institute. The 2067 soundtrack was released on Milan Records.