James Lavino is an American composer, known especially for his choral music and his music for film and television. A composer (literally meaning 'one who puts together' is a person who creates Music, usually in the medium of notation, for Interpretation and Performance
Lavino was born in Philadelphia in 1973 and studied music at The Juilliard School in New York City, where he was a composition student of Behzad Ranjbaran. Philadelphia (ˌfɪləˈdɛlfiə Year 1973 ( MCMLXXIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the 1973 Gregorian calendar. The Juilliard School, located in New York City, is a world renowned Performing arts conservatory. Behzad Ranjbaran (born in 1955 Tehran) is an Iranian musician and Composer. He later studied in London with Paul Patterson of the Royal Academy of Music. London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. Paul Patterson (born 1947) is a British Composer. He studied trombone and composition at the Royal Academy of Music. The Royal Academy of Music in London, England, is a well known conservatoire and one of the leading music institutions in the world
Lavino scored Matthew Galkin’s HBO documentary I am an animal: the story of Ingrid Newkirk and PETA, as well as Alex Karpovsky’s award-winning film The Hole Story and Sam Neave’s debut feature Cry Funny Happy, which premiered at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival. The Sundance Film Festival is a Film festival that takes place annually in the state of Utah, in the United States. He wrote songs for the groundbreaking Disney animated show The Book of Pooh and has also created music and sound effects for several advertising agencies and stage productions. The Book of Pooh was a show that aired on the Disney Channel. He was Composer-in-Residence for the 2003 American Music Festival in Cluj, Romania, and was the recipient of an ACAPlus Award, presented by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, in both 2005 and 2006. The American Society of Composers Authors and Publishers ( ASCAP) is a non-profit Performance rights organization that protects its
Current and upcoming film work includes scoring Alex Karpovsky's General Impression of Size and Shape, John Andres’s Creative Nature (a documentary about glass artist William Morris), and Sam Neave’s second feature, First Person Singular. William "Billy" Morris (born July 25, 1957) is an American glass artist
Lavino’s choral music has been performed in England, Spain, France, Romania, and throughout the USA. Recent commissions included a piece for the choir of Westminster Abbey and an unaccompanied setting of a poem, Their Lonely Betters by W. H. Auden for the Exmoor Singers. The Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster, which is almost always referred to by its original name of Westminster Abbey, is a large mainly Gothic church Wystan Hugh Auden (21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973 ˈwɪstən ˈhjuː ˈɔːdən who signed his works W The Exmoor Singers of London Chamber Choir is a choir with a strong focus on music by living composers and in particular British Composers. An Exhortation of St Peter was performed as part of the 2007 Tallis Festival and broadcast on BBC Radio 3. The Tallis Festival, hosted by Exmoor Singers of London forms the Tallis Festival Choir for just one weekend every 12 to 18 months
Lavino holds a Master’s degree in English from Yale University and was an Associate Editor of the esteemed literary magazine The Paris Review. The Paris Review is an English-language Literary magazine based in New York City. He is currently co-London-Editor of the literary magazine A Public Space. A Public Space is a quarterly English-language literary magazine based in Brooklyn, New York.
Since 2002, Lavino has lived in London, England. He is a member of the BBC Symphony Chorus.
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