Leslie Amper
Piano
Leslie Amper began her national career with a critically acclaimed New York debut in Carnegie Recital Hall. She went on to delight audiences in Chicago, New York, Pittsburgh, and San Francisco as well as at Monadnock Musicʼs Virtuoso Piano Series. A member of New Hampshire Music Festival, she is a frequent participant in Boston’s Emmanuel Music solo and chamber music celebrations. An acknowledged scholar and practitioner of contemporary music, Amper has recorded Andrew Imbrieʼs Short Story for Neuma Records which was chosen for the international radio broadcast, Art of the States. Equally adept at accompanying silent film, she has compiled piano accompaniments at the Harvard Film Archives for the short films of Georges Méliès and King Vidor’s The Crowd. As a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts solo recitalist grant, she presented Messiaenʼs monumental Vingt Regards sur lʼenfant Jésus in Boston, New York, Pittsburgh, and Washington, DC. Her unique multi media performances related to the visual arts have been presented at the invitation of the National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Pittsburgh Frick, New York State Museum, Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Phoenix Art Museum, Carnegie Mellon University and California State University East Bay. Leslie Amper studied at Oberlin College and with Russell Sherman at New England Conservatory. Currently teaching at New England Conservatory Preparatory and Wheaton (MA) College, Leslie Amper has lectured at Boston University, Currier House of Harvard University, and the University of Pittsburgh.