Phillip Lambro

The distinguished American composer and author Phillip Lambro was born in Wellesley, Massachusetts. He began studying music during his early teens in Boston, where at seventeen he made his debut performing Chopin at the Pianists Fair in Symphony Hall. Later he continued his studies in Miami, Florida and then received a scholarship to The Music Academy of the West in California where his teachers included Donald Pond and Bartok's most celebrated pupil, György Sandor.

Lambro was one of the youngest composers ever to be programmed on two separate occasions by the Philadelphia Orchestra. This great ensemble performed his Dance Barbaro for Percussion and the composer's Miraflores for String Orchestra which were broadcast all over the United States. Both of these compositions have since been played internationally.

Maestro Leopold Stokowski conducted Lambro's music when the composer was barely twenty-four.

Phillip Lambro has composed and conducted his music for several motion pictures, including the documentaries Energy on the Move, with which he led members of the New York Philharmonic, and Mineral King, for which he won the National Board of Review's award for best music.

The conductor-composer has recorded his Music for Wind, Brass & Percussion and Structures for String Orchestra conducting the United States International Orchestra. He has also been featured conducting his own music over Radio Italiana in Europe.

Phillip Lambro made musical history when the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra gave the world premiere of his Two Pictures for Solo Percussionist and Orchestra featuring John Beck as soloist. This was the first time a percussion solo had ever occurred on a classical series concert since the formation of the orchestra. Lambro later received high praise from Herbert von Karajan for this work.

Santiago Rodriguez, the Van Cliburn 1981 Medalist, has concertized with Phillip Lambro's piano music from the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. to Tokyo.

Philippe Entremont and Gaetano Delogu have both conducted multiple performances of Structures for String Orchestra which is Lambro's musical warning to mankind about overpopulation.

The works of Phillip Lambro have also been performed by the Baltimore Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony. Miami Symphony, Jacksonville Symphony, Denver Symphony, Oklahoma Symphony, New Orleans Symphony, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and other major hearings in the United States, Europe, South America, Australia, Asia, and Africa. His current recordings are of his film music, and they are all currently available of Perseverance Records. They include Crypt of the Living Dead, Murph the Surf, and The Film Music of Phillip Lambro (which contains music from the films, Mineral King, Father Pat, Celebration and Git!) To order any of these recordings please go to Perseverance Records.

Lambro has also written some fascinating books, such as CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE WORST KIND. It is an unconventional and startlingly truthful autobiographical memoir by American composer-conductor Phillip Lambro. It includes little known highly personal and candid recollections and recounting of witty evocative situations and stories which Phillip Lambro has personally experienced during his interesting and varied life with an unbelievable diverse cast of famous personages ranging from Salvador Dali, Frank Sinatra, Jack Benny, Huntington Hartford, Howard Hughes, and Roman Polanski; to John F. Kennedy, Sylvia Plath, Harold Lloyd, Richard Nixon, Jack Nicholson, Alfred Hitchcock, Steven Spielberg, Antonio Carlos Jobim, and many more. It is currently available at amazon.com Click here to go directly to amazon.com

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