Live @ Baruch Performing Arts Center’s Engelman Recital Hall
55 Lexington Avenue, New York
Audience entrance on East 25th Street between Lexington & 3rd Avenues
BIO
Like all composers whose work has stood the rest of time, David Amram's 1960 Piano Sonata, like Amram himself, is a reflection of all his experiences in music and life. Each movement celebrates the many worlds of the neoclassical . masters, middle Eastern, jazz and global folklore, all inspired by the architecture of traditional classical music, so that the soloist and the listener can both feel that they are being spoken to.
As his 93rd birthday approaches, Amram is now regarded as one of the most influential living composers of his time, since his appointment by Leonard Bernstein as the NY Philharmonic's first-ever composer-in-residence in 1966.
With over 100 symphonic , chamber, choral , theatrical, and operatic scores, all published C.P Peters, as well as his classic scores for "Splendor the Grass", "The Manchurian Candidate" and Jack Kerouac's " Pull my Daisy.”
A new book, The Many worlds of David Amram: the Renaissance Man of American Music by Dean Birkenkamp is being released for worldwide distribution by Routledge/Francis & Taylor this November . with essays written by symphony conductors, jazz journalists, college professors, Native American activists, film historians, folk musicians, musicologists, orchestral and chamber music performers, singer -songwriters, theater and film directors, novelists and people from all the places in Amram's life where music has taken him to.
In addition to constantly writing new music, and a fourth book, he continues to perform around the world as a guest conductor, soloist, multi-instrumentalist, band leader at jazz, folk and classical festivals and narrates them in five languages.
All of David Amram’s classical concert music for the past 60 years is published by CF. Peters Corporation. He is represented by Douglas A. Yeager. His continuing adventures in music and life can be seen on his webpage www.davidamram.com
BIO
Pianist Ran Feng’s career was launched at the age of fifteen, when she won third prize and the special award, “Pianist of the Future” in the Tbilisi Junior Piano Competition. Born in China, she began her piano studies at the age of four, enrolled in the Lyshenko School of Music for Gifted children in Ukraine at the age of fourteen, and earned her Bachelor’s and Master's degrees from the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Ukraine. Further studies ensued at the prestigious Imola Piano Academy in Italy, as well as in England and the United States.
A noted interpreter of the music of Liszt, she has received critical acclaim for her Liszt performances in Weimar, Germany and as a contestant in the Liszt International Piano Competition in The Netherlands. Other solo performances have taken the pianist to London, Manchester, Milan, Florence, Paris, Jaen, Boston and Denton, TX. Her chamber performances included performances in the Netherlands, Paris and Jaen, Spain.
In addition to her public performances, Ran Feng is a committed educator. Prior to the pandemic, in 2018, she organized th4 Recondite Armonie Summer Music Festival in Grosseto, Italy, which offered learning and performing opportunities for younger piano students. In 2020 she was invited to become an artistic consultant for Beijing Ethos Music Foundation. Through the foundation, she gives online master classes, as well as virtual performances and short talks about music for young piano students.
Currently residing in Texas, Ms. Feng is completing her DMA studies under the direction of Dr. Pamela Mia Paul and working as a Teaching Fellow in the piano department of the University of North Texas.