Kenneth Lampl
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Kenneth Lampl (born November 7, 1964 in the Bronx, NY) received his BA and MA from Rutgers University where he studied composition with Charles Wuorinen and conducting with Jens Nygaard. He received his DMA in 1996 from the Juilliard School of Music studying composition with Milton Babbitt.
His first international recognition came with the winning of the Prix Ravel in composition at the American Conservatory in Fontainebleau, France. Many awards soon followed including six ASCAP Composer Awards, two New Jersey State Council for the Arts Fellowships, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra Awards to Young Composers, the Gretchanov Memorial Prize in Composition from the Juilliard School and fellowships from the foundations of Henry Mancini, George Gershwin, and Richard Rodgers. With over twenty symphonic compositions to date, his music has been performed by such prestigious musical organizations as the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, the Kansas City Symphony, the Tanglewood Festival Orchestra, the Delaware Symphony, the Greenville Symphony, the Juilliard Orchestra, the Jupiter Symphony and the Absolute Ensemble.
His introduction to the world of film scoring came in 1997 with a fellowhip to the Tanglewood Music Festival where he had the opportunity to study composition and conducting with John Williams. As a composer of film music Kenneth Lampls first credits include music for the Academy Award winning short film SIX MILES OF EIGHT FEET and the Emmy Award winning short film EMPTY as well as additional music for POKEMON THE FIRST MOVIE: MEW VS. MEW TWO, POKEMON: MEWTWO RETURNS.
In 2005 he began his collaboration with director Dante Tomaselli writing music for SATAN'S PLAYGROUND starring Felissa Rose (SLEEPAWAY CAMP), Ellen Sandweiss (THE EVIL DEAD) and Edwin Neal (THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE) and Tomaselli's most recent film THE OCEAN starring Lindsay Lohan (JUST MY LUCK), Margot Kidder (SUPERMAN) and Dee Wallace (THE HILLS HAVE EYES).
He is currently scoring WINTER OF FROZEN DREAMS starring Thora Birch (AMERICAN BEAUTY), Keith Carridine (The Duelists) and Dean Winters (OZ) as well as Dante Tomaselli's next film
