Acclaimed Pianist, Leslie Amper, captivates international audiences with her “stupendous” performances.
A winner of the National Endowment for the Arts Solo Recitalist Fellowship Grant,
Ms. Amper has been invited to perform on Monadnock Music’s Virtuoso Piano Series, Emmanuel Music solo and chamber music celebrations of Schumann, Beethoven, and Harbison, Pittsburgh Symphony Concerts at the Point, Friday Musicale of Jacksonville, Florida, New Hampshire Music Festival and Harvard University’s Fromm Music Foundation Concerts, as well as in England, Italy, and Austria.
Ms. Amper toured the United States with her lecture/piano recital related the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Exhibition 1934: A New Deal for Artists. She was invited by the cutting edge theater director Peter Sellars to be an onstage pianist playing Scriabin in his American National Theater production in Washington, D.C. of Chekhovʼs A Seagull.
Testimonials/News
“The highlight of the program was a most commanding and serious performance of Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations…She built the series in a mighty span intensely engaged throughout.”
“Thank-you again and congratulations on a program that hit many nails on the head.”
Stephen Ackert, head of music
“A day later, I am still savoring that big Brahmsian, Amperian Sound”
Christopher Lydon, radio host and proto-podcaster
Upcoming Events
Tuesday, May 18, 2021
1:45 PM
Blended Senses : Synesthesia in Music, Art, Literature, and Fashion
Sharon MA Adult Center
lower level Sharon Community Center
219 Massapoag Avenue, Sharon, MA
Free -RSVP required
781-784-8000
May 29 2021
3:00 PM Core Memory Music
103 North Road
South Kingston, RI
www.corememorymusic.com
with Becca Kasdan violin
Music by Franck, Ravel, Lekeu
July-August 2021
New Hampshire Music Festival
Plymouth, NH
(please check back for specific details)
postponed to 2021
First Presbyterian Church
520 Royal Palm Blvd. Vero Beach, Florida
sponsored by Music Angels Education Fund
multi media lecture/recital
“Whats so great about Beethoven, anyway?”
(Happy belated 250th Birthday)
this event features a complete performance of
Sonata opus 31#3
Please Check Back for more performances !
Thank-you.
Selected Recent Events
November 1-2, 2018
Residency University of Washington, Seattle
Creativity in Hard Times: The Federal Music Project of the 1930’s
Performance and round table discussion with arts and economics professors
November 19-20 2018
Residency, University of Arizona, Tucson
Shared Inspirations:
Debussy, Alice Guy Blaché, and the Impressionist Painters
Performance and Master Class
October 22, 2017
Emmanuel Music, Boston, MA
Music by Wolf and Mendelssohn
August 2017
New Hampshire Music Festival
Silver Center: Plymouth, New Hampshire
February 22, 2017
Wheaton College, Norton, MA
Multimedia Piano Recital
Composers and Artists with Synesthesia
works by Liszt, Messiaen, Mozart, Beach, Ellington
February 8, 2015
Piano Recital: Music from the WW1 Years
works by Still,Beach, Cowell,Ravel,Bridge
Assumption College, Worcester, MA
Worcester, MA
February 16, 2016
Wheaton College, Norton, MA
“Shared Inspirations: Claude Debussy, Alice Guy Blache and the Impressionist Painters”
October 20-22, 2015
California State University, Hayward, CA
Residency: Master Class, Performance, Companion Student Recital
“Creativity in Hard Times: The Federal Music Project of the 1930’s”
July, 28, 2015
Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, NY
Lecture/Recital-“Creativity in Hard Times: The Federal Music Project of the 1930’s”
June 24, 2012
National Gallery of Art: Ciné Concert
George and Emma Bellows: The Music in Their Lives
Promotional Materials
(click either photo to view credit) Leslie Amper Bio