Jeffrey Chappell

Fantasy and Fugue

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Saturday, March 16, 8pm

Helmerich Theater

$65 front row, $45, $35 mbrs.

International concert pianist and composer Jeffrey Chappell weaves together jazz and classical compositions and invites you to reconsider the very ways that music communicates. The program includes less-familiar masterworks such as Mozart’s “Fantasy and Fugue”, Chopin’s “Andante Spianato and Grande Polonaise”, and the piano sonata by the American composer Charles Griffes. Jeffrey Chappell will also give the Key West premiere of his own composition, “Sonatina”.

JEFFREY CHAPPELL first gained national attention at the age of 24 by substituting for Claudio Arrau on four hours’ notice without rehearsal, performing the Brahms Second Concerto with the Baltimore Symphony to critical acclaim. Now a seasoned veteran of the concert stage, he has appeared throughout the United States in recital and with major symphony orchestras such as those of Philadelphia, St. Louis, Houston, Pittsburgh, and Indianapolis, collaborating with conductors including Catherine Comet, Sergiu Comissiona, Leon Fleisher, and David Zinman. He has performed in Europe, Latin America, and Asia, and has participated in music festivals including Marlboro, Piccolo Spoleto, and the La Gesse Festival in France. He has appeared at venues such as Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, The Kennedy Center, and Wolf Trap Park and is a recording artist on multiple labels.

sponsored by S/V Argo Navis-Hindu Charters

Read the accolades:

“Some rise above their colleagues in how well and originally they communicate. One of the latter is Jeffrey Chappell. He ended his program with a reading of Ravel’s Gaspard de la Nuit which was one of the finest this writer has heard.” – NEW YORK TIMES

“On a few hours notice, he replaced an ailing Claudio Arrau and performed, without benefit of rehearsal, the mighty Brahms Second Concerto. Chappell came through with flying colors and won a standing ovation.”  — BALTIMORE NEWS-AMERICAN

“Chappell is remarkable in intelligence and sensitivity. His technique is mastered to the point that one forgets it. The heart rules the fingers.”  — LE SOIR, BRUSSELS

“In ‘American Sonata’, composed by Mr. Chappell, he incorporated jazz, classical, and contemporary elements into a single work reminiscent of Erroll Garner and George Gershwin. One might call his style ‘jazzical’.”  — WASHINGTON TIMES

“He continually defies the unwritten law that pianists can’t excel at both classical music and jazz.”  — BALTIMORE MAGAZINE

“An extremely talented pianist with power to spare.”  — ST. LOUIS GLOBE-DEMOCRAT

“Performances of Ravel’s Jeux d´Eau and Toccata were fashioned with crispness, lightness and mesmerizing tonal balance, and if the powerful repeated-note figures at the opening of the ‘Toccata’ were impressive, the final pages were simply breathtaking.”  — WASHINGTON POST

“Jeffrey Chappell in the prominent piano part was spectacular.” (Scriabin’s ‘Prometheus: Poem of Fire’ with the Baltimore Symphony and Sergiu Comissiona at Carnegie Hall)  — NEW YORK DAILY NEWS