David Amram
Composer, Conductor & Multi-instrumentalist

Current and Past Shows

“He’s one of the most talented
musicians in the universe!”
...Pete Seeger

Current and Future Calendar
David on Piano

SEPTEMBER - 2024

September 1st2:00 - 3:00
Bradstock XXX
Camp Pa Qua Tuck, Center Moriches, NY
31st Annual Fund Raiser for kids on Long Island

David Amram, accompanied by Kevin Twigg, Rene Hart, Claudia Jacobs, and Adam Amram and surprise guests will perform 3:30 - 4:30 at the 30th Annual Bradstock, a 2 day Festival showcasing local performers & artisans.


September 14th2-6 pm
6th Annual Village Trip Festival of the Arts
JAZZ: the Passport to Global Folk Roots

West 4th Street between 6th Avenue and Barrow Street, NYC

Featuring The David Amram Group (Amram, Jim Seeley (trumpet), Rene Hart (bass), Kevin Twigg (drums & glockenspiel), Adam Amram, (percussion) & Avram Pengas (bazookie, guitar, vocals) playing the works of jazz masters of the past, with influences from Africa, Latin and Native America, the Middle East and Asia.
Avram Pengas will lead us in traditional music from Lebanon, Egypt,Greece.Armenia, Palestine Turkey and Israel.
Justin Poindexter, Educational Director for Lincoln Jazz Outreach and his wife Sasha Papernick will play music from Russia, Baltic countries and the USA Carolinas and the Deep South during the intermission.
All the musicians will be jamming and including special surprise guests for this block party in front of the iconic music store Music Inn.


September 15th6-8 pm EDT Why Do We Only Listen to Dead People? with Carol Gimbel
KMFU NY Radio, 91.1, 90.1, 91.9 FM or wfmu.org

Amram will be talking to Carol Gimbel show about chamber music and Amram’s upcoming concerts for the 6th Annual Village Trip Festival of the Arts beginning with Joe’s Pub on Sept 16th, as well as his concert of six most popular classical chamber works and world premiere of Voyages for Violin, for soloist Elmira Darvarova, commissioned by the NY Chamber Music Festival Oct 10th at Carnegie Hall, Weill Auditorium (Free of charge with reservation)


September 16th7 - 8:15 pm
6th Annual Village Trip Festival of the Arts
The Music of the Bard: Words & Music of Shakespeare in the Park 1956-1967

The Public Theater at Joe's Pub 425 Lafayette Street (at Astor Place)

This year marks the 70th birthday of what became Shakespeare in the Park as conceived by Joseph Papp. We celebrate with David Amram who, from 1956 to 1967, composed the music for 25 of its productions. Gail Merrifield Papp, Joe’s widow and theatrical partner for 25 years, will be among the friends joining him for this unique evening.


September 21st
Farm Aid
Broadview Stage at Saratoga Performing Arts Center
Saratoga Springs, NY


David's 31st appearance as a guest performer with Willie's Nelson band. Farm Aid has raised nearly $80 million to promote a strong and resilient family farm system of agriculture.


September 223:00
Players’ Choice
First Reformed Church of Scotia
224 N. Ballston Ave (Route 50), Scotia, NY


Conversations for Flute, Violin, Viola, Cello and Piano
was chosen as one of the Player's Choice for this concert. David Amram will be in attendance to talk to the audience about composing this piece


September 27th5 - 7 pm EDT 6th Annual Village Trip Festival of the Arts
Interview with David Amram

Lobby Bar at the Washington Square Hotel, 103 Waverly Place, NYC

Cliff Pearson, co-producer of the Village Trip Festival will host the interview and interview Amram.
David Amram, “Renaissance Man of American Music” and real-life Zelig, is now in his sixth year as Artist Emeritus of The Village Trip, having enthusiastically agreed to perform at the inaugural festival in 2018 when it was little more than a few paragraphs of ideas. He is the spirit of the festival, and a link to more than a half-century of fabled Village history. Indeed, David has lived much of it—hanging out with the Abstract Expressionists who changed the course of art, jamming with Parker, Monk and Mingus who changed the course of jazz, and composing for the great Joe Papp, who changed the course of theater.

He was Composer and Music Director for the Lincoln Center Theater, working with Arthur Miller, and was appointed by Leonard Bernstein to be the New York Philharmonic’s first Composer in Residence. With his buddy Jack Kerouac, he brought jazz and poetry to New York, and he’s played at every Farm Aid with his pal Willie Nelson. At 93, he’s still playing gigs in the US and abroad, as well as composing and conducting classical music.


OCTOBER - 2024

October 10th7:30 - 10:00
Carnegie Hall, Weil Hall
881 7th Ave., NYC
Free Concert!
New York Chamber Music Festival presents an evening of Amram's most popular classical chamber music compositions from 1957 through 2024 and a World Premier of Voyages for Violin, written for soloist Elmira Darvarova, founder of the New York Chamber Music Festival

The program includes…..
Three Lost Loves (2016)
Piano Sonata (1960)
Prologue and Scherzo for Solo Saxophone (2000)
Violin & Piano Sonata (1960)
The Wind and The Rain (1959)
Blues & Variations for Monk(1989)
Kerouac Readings from "On The Road" with music (1957)


October 10 - 13
36th Annual Lowell Celebrates Kerouac Festival
Lowell, Massachusetts

Various Music, Poetry and Commentary events Thursday through Sunday, including walking tours of Jack Kerouac's hometown.

Saturday October 12th 7:00 pm
Olympia’s Zorba’s Music Hall. 437 Market Street
The Amram Jazz Band featuring multi-instrumentalist & composer, David Amram, Kevin Twigg on drums, Rene Hart on bass, Jerome Harris on guitar and Adam Amram on percussion.
Followed by Lowell’s own The Party Band at 9:00 pm

Sunday October 13th 1:30 pm
The Old Worthen—downstairs. 141 Worthen Street
Annual Amram Jam Signups begin at 1:00 pm.
Bring your Kerouac inspired poem or prose to read while accompanied by David Amram, Adam Amram, Kevin Twigg, Jerome Harris and Rene Hart. Emceed by Wireless Mike Flynn.


NOVEMBER - 2024

November 9th
BROOKLYN FOLK FESTIVAL
ST ANN’S CHURCH 157 Montague Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201

Schedules and other details TBA


Sunday November 247:30
A QUESTION OF IDENTITY
World Premieres of Works by Francine Trester and David Amram

New England Conservatory’s Historic Jordan Hall
290 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115


Featuring works commissioned by Kenneth Radnofsky (alto and tenor saxophones, clarinet, bass clarinet): Neshot Hayil (Women of Valor) from Judaic Texts ‘Ya Ribon Olam,’ ‘Shir Lama’alot,' & ’Eshet Hayil' by Francine Trester and The Poetry of Sonia Sanchez ‘A Song for Sweet Honey in the Rock,’ ‘For Sister Gwen Brooks,’ & ‘Blues for Deb’ by David Amram
Special Guest Artists: Carrie Cheron mezzo-soprano, Adira Amram readings, Francine Trester violin, David Amram piano, palmas, Ziang Yin piano
Free and Open to the Public


November 30th
Theater For the New City
Annual Amram Birthday Celebration Concert

155 First Avenue (between 9th and 10th Streets) NYC 10003

Classic chamber works and jazz, world, and folk music
Details TBA


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