About Me
The Boston Globe has reviewed his music, saying that it “…definitely spoke a language that people knew. Just as definitely, though, it was this composer's own, distinctive voice. Not everybody could write like this and never come up with a cliche. This was good taste unto geniusâ€.
Composer Vicente Avella has been scoring to picture since 1996; when he developed a passion for the art form while taking film music courses at the Eastman School of Music. It was at that point that he realized that his love for both stories and music finds a perfect blend in films. Since then he has done extensive work in this field, having delivered scores to a number of award winning films and animations. Film credits include: Final Run, The Hall of Past Lives, The First Thing You Loose, Aguasanta's Fall, Alarm, Saudis in America, Scapegoat, Cross Pollination, The Shell, Bibbily Bobbily Job, The Diestmobile, Outdone, Up the Tree, A Night Less Ordinary and A Spring Day. Commercial and industrial credits include: Turning Stone Casino and Greater Rochester Visitors Association. He is currently working on the Fox show’s Family Guy and American Dad as a composer assistant to Ron Jones,.
In 2001 he was a finalist for the Turner Classic Movies Young Film Composers Competition. During that time, he composed the soundtrack for The Shell; a film directed by actress Elizabeth Harnois (Point Pleasant, All My Children, My Date with the President’s Daughter). And most recently, his score to Cross Pollination was runner-up as the Best Original Soundtrack in an Animation at the International Festival of Cinema & Technology.
He has been the recipient of numerous awards and recognitions: winner of the Bernard and Rose Sernoffsky Composition Prize, 2nd Place at the International Composition Competition for Young Composers ALEA III, received honors at Waging Peace through Singing, granted the title of Distinguished Musician by the IBLA International Music Foundation and has been a finalist for ASCAP’s Morton Gould Young Composer Award, Sundance Institute Composers Lab, BMI’s Pete Carpenter Fellowship Award as wells as received a grant by Meet the Composer.
He holds a B.M. in Piano Performance from Indiana University and a M.M. in Composition from the Eastman School of Music. In 2005 he was one of the participants for the NYU/ASCAP Film Scoring Workshop where he worked under the supervision of composers Mark Snow (X-Files, Crazy in Alabama), Ira Newborn (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Sixteen Candles) and orchestrator Sonny Kompanek (Hollywoodland, The Big Lebowski). Originally from Venezuela, he currently resides in Los Angeles, California.
