David Werner Amram III (born November 17, 1930) is an American composer, arranger, and conductor of orchestral, chamber, and choral works, many with jazz flavorings. [2] He plays piano, French horn, Spanish guitar, and pennywhistle, and sings. [3]

“David Amram is the Renaissance Man of American Music.” (The Boston Globe) "If you have not yet encountered this extraordinary man of music, you will marvel at his multiple gifts as a composer, conductor and solo instrumentalist."

Dec 19, 2019 · Musician/composer/conductor David Amram is still flourishing at age eighty-nine. And he's made music with everyone from Jack Kerouac to Charlie Parker.

Nov 17, 2021 · David Werner Amram III is an American composer, arranger, and conductor of orchestral, chamber, and choral works, many with jazz flavorings. He plays piano, French horn, Spanish guitar, and pennywhistle, sings, and is passionate …

Amram is the author of three memoirs, Upbeat: Nine Lives of a Musical Cat (2009), Offbeat: Collaborating With Kerouac (2005) and the highly acclaimed Vibrations (1968, 2007), all published by Routledge Taylor and Francis.

Oct 8, 2012 · David Amram has composed more than 100 orchestral and chamber music works and two operas, and his film scores include Splendor in the Grass and The Manchurian Candidate. In 1966, Leonard Bernstein chose Amram to be the New York Philharmonic’s first composer-in-residence.

Aug 18, 2016 · David Amram might be the most accomplished composer of our times with the least amount of recognition. This is a man who has worked with so many 20th century icons that first names aren’t necessary: Bernstein, Copland, Monk, Gillespie, Mingus, Kerouac, Dylan and Seeger, just to name a few.

Music Director for past 26 years of Brooklyn Philharmonic's "Young Peoples & Parks Concerts," combining Jazz, Latin & World Music with the Symphony, as Conductor, Narrator & Soloist. …

Dec 6, 2017 · A pioneer player of jazz French horn, David Amram is also a virtuoso on piano, numerous flutes and whistles, percussion, and dozens of folkloric instruments from 25 countries, as well as an inventive, funny improvisational lyricist.

One of the most eclectic, versatile, and unpredictable American musicians of the 20th–21st centuries, Amram has given equal attention throughout his life thus far to contemporary classical art music, ethnic folk music, film and theater music, and jazz.