David Amram
- Composer
- Music Department
- Actor
David Amram has been described as "the Renaissance man of American
music." He has composed over 100 orchestral and chamber works, written
two operas, and many scores for theatre and films. He has collaborated
with such notables as Leonard Bernstein, Dizzy Gillespie, Dustin
Hoffman, Charlie Mingus, Elia Kazan, Odetta, Jack Kerouac, Betty Carter
and Tito Puente. He has conducted and performed as a soloist with
symphony orchestras around the world, participated in major music
festivals, and traveled from Brazil and Cuba to Kenya and Egypt. 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 their "Twenty Most
Performed Composers of Concert Music in the United States."
