Tickets
Non-Members: $40
Members: $35
Doors open at 5:30 PM
Concert begins at 6 PM
The Church is honored to welcome Renaissance Man and “Father of World Music,” David Amram to Sag Harbor, for an intimate concert and an unforgettable evening. Join us for a performance and dialogue with a living legend who strives to “remain open and respectful to all forms of artistic expression and to the people and the cultures who keep these arts alive and share them with others.”
Performing a combination of his classical jazz compositions and weaving together anecdotes of his experience working with some of America’s most notable creative giants, Amram invites audiences to an evening that explores the polymath’s incredible contribution to the legacy of American Music and offers a renewed embrace of international cultures.
The legendary composer, conductor, and multi-instrumentalist comes to our community with over 70 years of career experience, working and collaborating with creative geniuses from all mediums. From being mentored by jazz legends Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker, recording with musical giants Thad Jones and Charles Mingus, creating the first ever Jazz/Poetry event in NY with Jack Kerouac, performing with generational legends Thelonious Monk, Nina Simone, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, and an endless incomparable list of other titans of creativity, Amram’s lifetime love affair with jazz has taken him far from a family farm in Pennsylvania and carried him all over the world.
And now he finds himself here with us in Sag Harbor, a wellspring of inspiration to musicians and creatives alike. We encourage aspiring musicians and jazz enthusiasts of all ages to purchase tickets in advance while they are still available.
Copies of David’s book The Many Worlds of David Amram Rennaissance Man of American Music will be available for cash purchase on site.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
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David Amram is an American composer, arranger, and conductor of orchestral, chamber and choral works, many with jazz flavorings. He plays piano, French horn, Spanish guitar, pennywhistle, and sings. His lifetime love affair began with a trip to hear Duke Ellington’s band at the Earl Theater Philadelphia in 1940. Since then he has continued over the past seven decades as one of the first pioneers to include the French horn as an improvising voice in jazz. He has also been acclaimedas a major pioneer of World music. As a performer, composer and conductor/arranger, Amram has recorded with Lionel Hampton, Charles Mingus, Kenny Dorham, Oscar Pettiford, Dizzy Gillespie, Machito, Candido, Betty Carter, Curtis Fuller, Pepper Adams, Mary Lou Williams, Thad Jones, Julius Watkins, T.S Monk, Paquito d'Rivera, Arturo Sandoval, Curtis Fuller, Jutta Hipp, Anita Ellis, Albert Mangelsdorff, and Emil Mangelsdorff; in addition to his `Folk’ work with Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Pete Seeger, Odetta, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, Judy Collins, Loudon Wainwright III, Steve Goodman, Jerry Jeff Walker, and Kate Taylor, and John McEuen. In addition, noted artists have also recorded his compositions including Gerry Mulligan, Stan Kenton, David Sanborn, and the Percy Faith Orchestra.
He has also performed with Thelonious Monk, Sonny Rollins, Dizzy Gillespie, Max Roach, Gerry Mulligan, Elvin Jones, Stan Getz, Earle “Fatha” Hines, Randy Weston, Kenny Burrell, Los Papines, Wynton Marsalis, Nina Simone. Stephane Grappelli, Paquito d’Rivera, Ray Barretto, Mongo Santa Maria, Bobby Sanabria, Arturo Sandoval, Arturo O'Farrell, Jim Pepper, Yolande Bavan, Benny Golson, Bill Evans, and Kurt Elling. Over the past sixty years, Amram has conducted symphony concerts with more than 75 of the world's great orchestras and performed as a soloist with 40 orchestras, while often performing music from his more than 110 orchestral and chamber music works. His film scores in include: Echo of an Era, Splendor in the Grass, The Manchurian Candidate, Pull My Daisy, New Homeland, and Isn’t it Delicious. In 1966 he was chosen by Leonard Bernstein as the New York Philharmonic’s first-ever composer in resident. Amram has been honored as the recipient of: The Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame's Jay McShann Lifetime Achievement Award, and the New York's Highlights in Jazz Lifetime Achievement Award; along with Folk Alliance International’s Lifetime Achievement Award; the Pete & Toshi Seeger’s Power of Song Award; and the Spirit of Farm Aid Award, in honor of his 34 years playing with the Willie Nelson Band at Farm Aid. For More Information Visit: davidamram.com
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Adam Amram was brought up surrounded by music, and has been a member of the David Amram quintet for the past fifteen years. He has performed with his father at major music festivals overseas including recent tours of the UK, Italy, the Montreal International Festival du Jazz, and throughout the USA at Summer Fair concerts, in Central Park in New York City, in the ballet "Voodoo McBeth" in New Orleans, the annual Clearwater Festival, the Philadelphia Folk Festivalm, and for actor Ben Stiller's 50th anniversary tribute to his father and mother Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara. Adam has also accompanied actors John Ventimiglia (of The Sopranos ), and Keir Dullea (of 2001 Space Odyssey ) for jazz-poetry readings in New York City. Adam and his sister, singer -songwriter Alana Amram have also toured together in Switzerland, Germany, Austria, and the UK.
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Jerome Harris is a widely recognized as a unique musical stylist, garnering international acclaim for his incisive and versatile voice on both guitar and bass guitar. Jerome Harris’s first major professional performing experience came as bass guitarist with jazz icon Sonny Rollins in 1978; from 1988 to 1994 he played guitar with Rollins. Harris has performed on six continents, working with Jack DeJohnette, David Krakauer, Bill Frisell, David Amram, Paul Motian, Leni Stern, Martha Redbone, Ray Anderson, Julius Hemphill, Amina Claudine Myers, Ned Rothenberg, Oliver Lake, and many others. Jerome Harris appears on over sixty recordings; his formative musical experiences include blues, folk, gospel, and a range of other American music genres. He has taught at Hampshire College, William Paterson University, Lehman College (City University of New York), and the Alternative Guitar Summit Camp.
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Kevin Twigg is a classically trained percussionist from New York, has been playing drums and glockenspiel in David Amram’s quartet for more than twenty-five years. He has performed in Avery Fischer Hall, Carnegie Hall, the Washington State Center for the Performing Arts, Washington DC, the Kravis Center in Florida, the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood, Bradstock, the Clearwater Music Festival, the Philadelphia Folk Festival, at the Teatro Manzoni in Milano, Italy, and many memorable places in between. Twigg has been mentioned in the Washington Post, the New York Times, and has been tweeted by Michael Moore. He appears on recordings such as "Occupy this Album" with Michael Moore and Tom Chapin, "Ban this Fracking Album" with David Amram, Teddy Charles, Jack LaCitra and Paul Serrato, on his own album "My Reel," and on John McEuen’s album release, “Made in Brooklyn.”
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Bassist and Composer Rene Hart is a unique musician who draws from a wide range of influences and has toured the world extensively, performing at major Jazz and multi-genre music festivals, including the North Sea Jazz Festival and the Montreal Jazz Festival. Rene's television appearances include The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Late Night with Conan O'Brian. Rene has performed in the Amram quintet for fifteen years, in addition to recording and performing with artists from Julian Priester, Bill McHenry, Don Braden and Myra Melford to James Hunter, Anat Fort, and Bilal. Other notable performances include Branford Marsalis and Pete Seeger.