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 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.


October 19th7:00
Opening Gala for Bronx Heritage Auditorium
Bronx Music Hall
438 E. 163rd St, Bronx, NY

David Amram will be a featured soloist with Bobby Sanabria and the Multiverse Orchestra
https://www.bronxmusichall.org/grandopening


NOVEMBER - 2024

November 9th7:00 BROOKLYN FOLK FESTIVAL
ST ANN’S CHURCH 157 Montague Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201
“JAZZ; A Passport for all Music with Global Folk Roots"
The David Amram Quintet will feature Rene Hart Bass, Kevin Twigg Drums and Glockenspiel, Adam Amram Congas and Percussion, Justin Poindexter Guitar and David Amram, Piano, French Horn, Chinese Hulusei, Penny Whistles, Dumbek, Latin Percussion, and Scat Vocals. Surprise guests will appear and there will be short readings from  Jack Kerouac’s On the Road with music


Nov. 15 & 167:00 & 9:30 David Amram's 94th Birthday Celebration
The Jazz Forum, Tarrytown, NY
David Amram Quintet with Kevin Twigg, Drums and Glockenspiel, Rene Hart, Bass, Justin Poindexter, Guitar, Adam Amram, Drums and Percussion and Piano, French horn, Chinese Hulusei, Penny Whistles, Dumbek, Latin Percussion, Scat Vocals by David Amram
2 shows each night - surprise guests and short readings from Jack Kerouac's On The Road


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


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