Artist Description
Jazz pianist and educator Harry Appelman has performed on concert stages on five continents. He has been chosen three times to participate in U.S. State Department music tours overseas for the Rhythm Road: American Music Abroad program (formerly the Jazz Ambassadors) -- to South and Central America in 2002, to Eastern Europe, Turkey and Cyprus in February 2007 and to South Asia in March 2009. He performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland in July 2009, and also played concerts and clinics in Egypt in February 2008 with the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra, under the direction of David Baker. Mr. Appelman has toured the United States and Canada with the Woody Herman Orchestra (under the direction of Frank Tiberi) and the Artie Shaw Orchestra (under the direction of Dick Johnson). He was a finalist in both the 1987 and 1988 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Piano Competitions (finishing second in 1988) and one of three prizewinners in the 1989 Great American Jazz Piano Competition.
2006 to present: adjunct music faculty (applied music), Montgomery College, Rockville, MD.
2009 to present: adjunct music faculty, University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Available as pianist, keyboardist, jazz ensembles.
Private jazz instruction. |
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