Born in the
Bronx,
New York, Lampl studied saxophone with
Paul Jeffrey and
Sahib Shihab at
Rutgers University and was a member of the Rutgers University Jazz Ensemble. After college, Lampl performed as part of jazz drummer
Chico Hamilton's sextet, the Young Altos, performing at the
Lincoln Center, the
Apollo Theater, and the
JVC Jazz Festival. Lampl began his first classical composition studies with
Pulitzer Prize winning composer
Charles Wuorinen in the graduate program at
Rutgers University. Lampl's first international recognition came with the winning of the "Prix Ravel" in composition from the
American Conservatory in Fontainebleau, France and his first orchestral piece "Parallax" won the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra Young Composers Award, the ASCAP Awards for Young Composers. and the
Joseph H. Bearns Prize in Composition from
Columbia University. In 1996 Lampl received his DMA in Composition from the
Juilliard School studying with
Milton Babbitt and
John Corigliano, and taught Literature and Materials of Music there in the academic years 1996-1999. At the
Juilliard School he received the Gretchanov Memorial Prize in Composition and fellowships from the foundations of
Henry Mancini,
George Gershwin and
Richard Rodgers. In 1998 he was awarded a composer fellowship to the
Tanglewood Music Festival where he studied film scoring with
John Williams. ==Film scoring==