 Recognized
and known around the globe for writing the music scores of the films
Splendor in the Grass and The Manchurian Candidate.
Maestro Amram is one of the greatest composers and musicians of our
time; an international musical trasure. Long acknowledged as a pioneer
of World Music, virtuoso, performer, brilliant conductor and composer
of uncompromising originality since the 1950s. Since being appointed
first composer-in-residence with the New York Philharmonic in 1966-67,
he has become one of the most acclaimed composers of his generation,
listed by BMI as one of the Twenty Most Performed Composers of Concert
Music in the United States since 1974. For twenty-nine seasons, Amram
was the music director of Young People's, Family, and Free Summer
concert programs for the Brooklyn Philharmonic at the Brooklyn Academy
of Music. As conductor, narrator, and soloist on instruments from all
over the world, he combines jazz, Latin American, Middle Eastern,
Native American, and folk musics of the world, in conjunction with the
European classics. In the Spring of 1995, the Brooklyn Academy of
Music honored his quarter of a century as a pioneer of multicultural
symphonic programming.
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He
appears as guest conductor and soloist with major orchestras around the
world, as well as touring internationally with his quartet, while
continuing to produce a remarkable output of new compositions. On
September 14, 2002, David Amram's new flute concerto "Giants of the
Night" was premiered by James Galway, to critical acclaim. Other recent
commissions include A Little Rebellion: Thomas Jefferson
premiered at the Kennedy Center with E.G. Marshall narrating and Amram
conducting members of the National Symphony Orchestra. Kokopelli: A
Symphony on Three Movements, received its world premiere with Amram
conducting the Nashville Symphony Orchestra and has been recorded. The
Boston Globe has described David Amram as "the Renaissance man of
American music." He has composed over 100 orchestral and chamber works,
written two operas, and early in his career, wrote many scores for
theater and films. He plays French horn, piano, guitar, numerous flutes
and whistles, percussion, and a variety of folkloric instruments from 25
countries.
Maestro Amram is listed in the World Who's Who in Jazz, Cabaret,
Music and Entertainment. |
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