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David Alpher is the Artistic Director of the Chamber Arts Festival of Marbletown in New York's Hudson Valley. He also founded and for ten years co-directed the Rockport Chamber Music Festival in Massachusetts, now in its 24th season.
In addition, Mr. Alpher has been prominent as a pianist. On the CD American Dreamer: Songs of Stephen Foster (Angel), he collaborated as pianist and co-arranger with Thomas Hampson, Jay Ungar and Molly Mason. This ensemble performed at Tanglewood and at the Great Performers at Lincoln Center series; in a nationally-telecast PBS concert with Marilyn Horne, Dawn Upshaw, Jerry Hadley and Harolyn Blackwell; and on German television. He enjoys a lively career as a cabaret artist with his wife, vocalist Jennie Litt; their themed shows range from satiric evenings featuring tuneful and mischievous Alpher/Litt originals, to the songs of Tin Pan Alley and the American Left. From 1985 to 1996, Mr. Alpher was musical director of the Gloucester Stage Company, and from 1975 to 1980, he was musical director of New York's Allnations Dance Company.
A native of Washington, D.C., David Alpher graduated with High Distinction from the Indiana University School of Music in 1968. He studied piano with Menahem Pressler and Jeaneane Dowis, and was a resident fellow at The MacDowell Colony and at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.
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