James Lavino
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James Lavino is an American composer, known especially for his choral music and his music for film and television.
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. He later studied in London with Paul Patterson of the Royal Academy of Music.
Lavino scored Alex Karpovsky’s The Hole Story and Sam Neave’s debut feature Cry Funny Happy, which premiered at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival. 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. 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.
Current and upcoming film work includes scoring Matthew Galkin’s HBO documentary I am an animal: the story of Ingrid Newkirk and PETA; John Andres’s Creative Nature (a documentary about glass artist William Morris); and Sam Neave’s second feature, First Person Singular.
Lavino’s choral music has been performed in England, Spain, France, Romania, and throughout the USA. Upcoming commissions include a setting of Dylan Thomas’s poem “Do not go gentle into that good night” and a Latin mass for youth choir and organ.
Lavino holds a Master’s degree in English from Yale University and was an Associate Editor of the esteemed literary magazine The Paris Review. He is currently co-London-Editor of the literary magazine A Public Space.
Since 2002, Lavino has lived in London, England. He is a member of the BBC Symphony Chorus.
