Jamie Lawrence

Emmy-Winning Composer

Music Director

Producer

Film Credits

Film Music Samples

Production And Songwriting

Jamie Lawrence has been the Tony's Associate Music Director and a principal arranger/composer for over two decades, and was the Music Director for the 2019 Tony Awards.

Music Direction

“The 2013 opening number: I’ll never be part of anything like that again, where we had this vertiginous domino rally of all these casts, who had only rehearsed with Neil for 10 minutes at a time. When we went live, the dominoes knocked each other down."

- Lin Manuel Miranda

The Tony Awards (CBS)

In 2013, Jamie conducted this amazing opening
(video to the left) sung by Neil Patrick Harris.

Jamie was the Music Director for the 2019 Tony Awards broadcast featuring the amazing James Corden.

More:

Bill Moyers and Company - PBS - composer Crime Ink - A & E - composer The Whistleblower - A & E - composer Bill Moyers Presents: Earth on Edge - PBS - composer

Cannibals of the Canyon - Channel 4 UK - composer ; Mummy Road Show - National Geographic - composer ; Extreme Science Series - National Geographic - composer

Night Visitors - NBC Movie of the Week - composer Going Places - 20 Hour  PBS Series - composer Smoke Alarm - HBO - composer

Lost Warrior of the Clouds - Discovery Channel - composer Wildlife Vets With Alicia Silverstone - TBS - composer Pirates Gold - Nova - composer

Monsterfest Week with Tim Burton - AMC - composer Mentor and The Hip Hop Owls - WB Network - composer Sesame Street - CTW - composer

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Jamie Lawrence is an eclectic musician active in film, television, and theater as a composer, orchestrator, and producer. He has racked up five Emmy awards and another nine Emmy nominations for his compositions and arrangements. He served as Music Director for the 2019 Tony Awards and has been its principal composer/arranger for many years. Jamie has scored many documentaries for HBO, including Dealing Dogs, Death on a Factory Farm, The Alzheimer’s Project - “Momentum In Science,” and produced and orchestrated the scores for many Rebecca Miller’s films, most recently Arthur Miller: Writer, Maggie’s Plan, and The Private Lives of Pippa Lee. He scored and contributed songs to Hulu’s teen musical romp Best Summer Ever. 

As an orchestrator and arranger, he has penned arrangements for numerous musical luminaries such as Jessye Norman, Quincy Jones, Smokey Robinson, Audra McDonald, and Herbie Hancock. He is currently orchestrating and just co-produced the cast album to the upcoming Broadway show by Adam Guettel Days of Wine and Roses.

Jamie loves writing songs and in the past few years has co-written and produced albums for MuMu (Ladies First), Nora York (Swoon), as well as released his personal jazz foray, New York Suite. Jamie grew up in New York City and received a BA in music from Yale University. In his off hours, he has a sideline as a writer/performer of children’s songs under his alias, Jamie Broza. His first CD for children, Bad Mood Mom and other Good Mood Songs, made the Parents’ Choice Foundation’s list of the top 25 children’s CDs in the last 25 years. He is an adjunct professor of Film Scoring at the NYU Film Scoring masters program.

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