Phillip Lambro

Composer/conductor Phillip Lambro's career in classical music started early. Lambro made his piano debut at 18 performing Chopin at The Pianists Fair in Boston's Symphony Hall. His concert works, publicly praised by Maestro Herbert von Karajan and NPR "Live From Lincoln Center" commentator Martin Bookspan, have since been performed internationally by dozens of renowned performers and ensembles, including the Baltimore Symphony (conducted by Maestro Leopold Stokowski), the New Orleans Symphony, the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, pianist Roman Rudnytsky and Van Cliburn medallist Santiago Rodriguez. In the early 1960s, Lambro befriended future ASCAP president and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Morton Gould, who helped him land a job as Assistant Director of Publications at G. Schirmer; soon after, Lambro was appointed the Music Director & Consultant for the United Nations. Lambro's scores for Murph the Surf and Crypt of the Living Dead were released on CD by Perseverance Records in 2006, and his witty memoir Close Encounters of the Worst Kind was released in early 2007 through www.lulu.com. Lambro is currently writing a book about his concert hall experiences, set for publication in late 2007.