Four time Grammy-winner Lawrence Manchester is very much in-demand – whether recording Jon Batiste at Carnegie Hall, mixing Noah Kahan or Sabrina Carpenter on SNL, recording an 80 piece choir on-set for Bradley Cooper’s Maestro, tracking vocals with Dua Lipa, “Slow Jamming The News” with President Obama, remixing David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” in Dolby Atmos, or mixing Billie Eilish live to a worldwide Global Citizen TV audience of millions.
Lawrence just received his fourth Grammy Award for his work recording and mixing Some Like It Hot (Original Broadway Cast Recording) in the Best Musical Theater Album category and he won the same award last year for recording Into The Woods (2022 Broadway Cast Recording).
Lawrence recently recorded Danny Elfman’s score for the Netflix film, White Noise, served as the vocal recording engineer for Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story, co-produced the 2024 Original Broadway cast albums of both The Outsiders and The Wiz, and recorded and mixed season two of the beloved Apple TV+ series Schmigadoon!. In 2021, Lawrence received Emmy, Grammy, and Cinema Audio Society Awards for his mix of the score for the Netflix hit series, The Queen’s Gambit.
Some of his other 100+ films include Mean Girls (2024), The Departed, Dear Evan Hansen, Bros., The Last Five Years, The Girl on the Train, Godless, True Grit, Noelle, Frida, The Woman in the Window, Across the Universe, The Good Shepherd, and I, Tonya.
Some of his other 35+ Broadway cast album recordings include Harmony, Caroline or Change, Something Rotten!, Flying Over Sunset, A Bronx Tale, The Prom, Head Over Heels, The Cher Show, Summer: The Donna Summer Musical, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, Godspell, Pippin, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Kiss Me Kate.
Numerous solo artist credits include albums with Idina Menzel, Sutton Foster, Kelli O’Hara, Jimmy Scott, Billy Porter, Matthew Morrison, David Sanborn, Natalia Lafourcade, The Count Basie Orchestra, Dionne Warwick, Michel Legrand, John Fogerty, Liza Minnelli, and Bette Midler.
Lawrence is also the music mixer for NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and co-producer of Fallon’s Grammy-winning comedy album, Blow Your Pants Off. During his fifteen years with Jimmy, he’s mixed thousands of live performances by hundreds of artists including The Roots, Camila Cabello, Ed Sheeran, Taylor Swift, BTS, Adele, Prince, Lady Gaga, Beastie Boys, Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney, Sting, Metallica, Ariana Grande, Green Day, Arctic Monkeys, The Avett Brothers, The 1975, Blake Shelton, Public Enemy, Dave Matthews Band, Shakira, U2, Foo Fighters, J.Lo, and The Who, and has collaborated on viral videos surpassing twenty-two billion views.
PRESS:
City Life Org – August 2023
WJBQ: The Nite Show with Danny Cashman – March 2023
Broadway World – September 2022
SHOOT – August 2021
Variety – April 2020
Playbill – March 2019
Playbill – May 2018
Mix Magazine – March 2017
Press Herald – March 2013
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