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
NEW HAMPSHIRE MUSIC FESTIVAL
NHMF.org
Monday July 17, 7:00 PM
First Congregational Church
Lebanon, NH
Tuesday July 18, 7:00 PM
Plymouth State University (NH)
Silver Center for the Arts
Brahms :Clarinet Trio
NEW HAMPSHIRE MUSIC FESTIVAL
NHMF.org
Monday July 24, 7:00 PM
Guilford Community Church
Guilford, NH
Tuesday July 25, 7:00 PM
Plymouth State University (NH)
Silver Center for the Arts
Chamber music
Zelenka and Moszkowski
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October 2023 ( specific dates TBD)
Salem, Ma
Old Town Hall
Cry Innocent : The People vs. Bridget Bishop
-cast as Bridget Bishop
Live Arts
liveartsma.org
October 15, 3:00 PM
First Universalist Society
262 Chestnut Street
Franklin, MA
Kreisleriana Revealed: Schumann’s Kreisleriana with Clara and Robert Schumann letters interspersed
and a short silent film with live piano accompaniment by Schumann
Selected Recent Events
2023
1/8/23
Norton Museum of Art-West Palm Beach Florida
Sounds that Inspired Them: American Modern Artists and Music
Piano Performance, Art Images, Commentary
Music by Bach, Schubert, Gershwin, Davidovsky, Granados
2022
1/14/2022
Music Angels Education Fund
Vero Beach, Florida
The Many Faces of Beethoven
multi media piano presentation featuring
Beethoven Portraits and Sonata opus 31 no. 3
2021
“How to Practice Piano” (educational video)
designed for virtual learning for NH Public School students
2020 Virtual Concerts
New Hampshire Music Festival
Boston Symphony BSO NOW
2020 Outdoor Concerts
“Concerts on the Deck with Marvin”
(fundraiser events for Sharon Performing Artists Association)
Orchard Cove Concerts Stoughton, MA
November 16, 2019
Vero Beach Museum of Art, Vero Beach, Florida
From the Classical to the Cabaret: French Music from the Late- 19th Century
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 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”
February 8, 2015
Piano Recital: Music from the WW1 Years
works by Still,Beach, Cowell,Ravel,Bridge
Assumption College, Worcester, MA
Worcester, MA
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