DAVID AMRAM
(Putman Valley, NY)

David conducting the Festival Orchestra in 2001

Performance Date

Monday, June 2

"Amram Jam" Sundown Concert - Threadgill Theater

 

Tuesday, June 3

Club Passim 50th Anniversary Celebration

Sundown Concert - Threadgill Theater

Back for his um-teenth appearance at Kerrville is composer, conductor,  and musician extraordinaire David Amram.

David has collaborated with such notables as Leonard Bernstein, Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, Charles Mingus, Dustin Hoffman, Thelonious Monk, Willie Nelson, Jack Kerouac, Betty Carter, Odetta, Elia Kazan, Arthur Miller, and Tito Puente.  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 more information on David, visit www.fmp.com/amram .