David Amram

David Amram

composer, music department, actor

David Amram was born on Nov 17, 1930 in USA. David Amram's big-screen debut came with Splendor in the Grass directed by Elia Kazan in 1961. David Amram is known for Isn't It Delicious directed by Michael Patrick Kelly, Kathleen Chalfant stars as Joan Weldon and Keir Dullea as Bill Weldon. The upcoming new movie David Amram plays is Isn't It Delicious which will be released on Dec 16, 2014.

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 f rom 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 Un ited States."

  • Birthday

    Nov 17, 1930
  • Place of Birth

    New York City, New York, USA