Lance Horne

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Composer-lyricist LANCE HORNE has performed alongside, composed, and/or provided arrangements for Alan Cumming, Kristin Chenoweth, Ricki Lake, Cheyenne Jackson, Kelli O’Hara, Jake Shears, Meow Meow, Justin Bond, Sandra Bernhard, Amanda Palmer/Dresden Dolls, and Boston Pops; appeared with Seoul Philharmonic, Atlanta Symphony, London Gay Men’s Chorus, Sydney Dance Company, on Sirius Radio and the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade; opened for Death Cab, Michael Feinstein, Dwight Yoakam; performed for President Obama, the First Lady, and Queen Elizabeth; conducted return engagements at Sydney Opera House, international tours of Handel’s Messiah Rocks and Jekyll & Hyde, West End appearances at the Vaudeville, Hippodrome, Garrick, and Apollo, multiple performances at Carnegie and Zankel Hall; participated in Pina Bausch’s final Tanzfestival, Baryshnikov’s Ringling Festival, David Bowie’s Highline Festival, Toronto’s Luminato festival, two seasons at Lincoln Center’s American Songbook and the Geffen; co-MDed and arranged with frequent collaborator Debra Barsha the ART production of Prometheus Bound by Steven Sater/Serj Tankian (System of a Down) as well as Cabaret starring Amanda Palmer; contributed original material and arrangements to Vegas! The Show currently playing at Planet Hollywood Casino in Las Vegas, music directed the Steven Sater/Duncan Sheik Alice by Heart for the National Theater in London, and provided the vocal arrangements for the Broadway production of Little Women.

MR. HORNE received an Emmy for Best Original Song (Daytime: One Life to Live), the Jonathan Larson Award for composer-lyricist, a Bistro Award for producing Alan Cumming’s album, I Bought a Blue Car Today, ASCAP Young Composer Awards, and is a Usual Suspect at NYTW. Composition residencies at the Orchard Project, New Harmony Project, American Opera Projects, TheaterWorks Palo Alto, ACT, Franklin Furnace, ArsNova, Public Theater, and the O'Neill NMTC, and produced his debut album First Things Last on Yellow Sound Label (ADA/Warner) with concurrent concerts at Lincoln Center and on the West End with over a dozen singers from Broadway, West End, and television.

TV: MR. HORNE’s arrangement of “Yes, Virginia” just received the 2011 Emmy for Macy’s for their Thanksgiving Parade telecast. ABC at Lincoln Center: Tree Lighting with Sesame Street, ABC’s One Life to Live: Prom Night- The Musical, NBC: 80th, 82nd, 83rd, 84th Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parades with Diana DeGarmo, Phoenix Boys Choir, Clique Girls, Alan Cumming, Ann Hampton Callaway, and NBC Orchestra. Film: Ready? OK! starring Carrie Preston (True Blood) and Michael Emerson (Lost), To Paint the Portrait of a Bird, Thank You For Judging, and Yes, Virginia. Additional recordings: Little Women (Ghostlight), Yes, Virginia, Songs From An Unmade

Bed (Ghostlight), A Season’s Promise (New World Records), The Battery’s Down Season 2 (Sh-K- Boom), Julie Atherton’s No Space for Air (Speckulation), One Life to Live: Prom Night- the Musical (ABC), and the aforementioned Alan Cumming: I Bought a Blue Car Today (Yellow Sound Label) with additional remixes by DJ Morel.

HORNE actively supports AMFAR, BC/EFA, Actor’s Fund, Operation Smile, NY Pops, GLAAD Awards, Sing for Hope, New York Hearing Institute, LiveOutLoud, Rosie’s Kids, Point Foundation, The Matthew Shepard Foundation, Survivors UK and ASTEP through appearances and creation of original material. He holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s in Music Composition from The Juilliard School, currently completing his DMA at CUNY Graduate Center, has taught at Juilliard for a decade in the College, Evening, and Precollege divisions, NYU, in Paris at EAMA, has guest-lectured in communications at Stockholm HyperIsland and in theater and composition at his alma mater, Interlochen Arts Academy. He is currently on the committee for the Academy’s 50th Anniversary and on the board of the American Songbook Project.

Upcoming composition and performance engagements with Larry Gatlin/Gatlin Brothers, Edinburgh Festival, NIMAX, new dance opera for LA Opera with The Edge Dance Company, score for Void--of-Course Fashion Line, music video with Meow Meow, a ballet with Mark Stuart Dance Company, commission for American Boychoir, marionette show for Macy’s and serving as curator for Sydney Mardi Gras.

For further information, visit lancehorne.com or contact lance@lancehorne.com