Multi-instrumentalist and legendary composer David Amram whose groundbreaking work combining jazz and classical music led to scores for movies like the Manchurian Candidate is a virtuoso performer.

His integration of jazz (including being one of the first noted as an improvising jazz French hornist), ethnic and folk music has led him to work with the likes of Apollo legends like Machito, Tito Puente, Charlie Parker, Odetta, Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, Mary Lou Williams, Nina Simone, Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Stan Getz, Earl "Fatha" Hines, as well as Willie Nelson, Langston Hughes, Leonard Bernstein, Pete Seeger, Steve Allen,  Allen Ginsberg,  Bob Dylan, and Jack Kerouac.

He has composed more than 100 orchestral and chamber music works, written many scores for Broadway theater and film, including the classic scores for the films Splendor in the Grass and The Manchurian Candidate; two operas, and the score for the landmark 1959 documentary Pull My Daisy, narrated by novelist Jack Kerouac.

Today, as he has for over sixty years, Amram continues to compose music while traveling the world as a conductor, soloist, bandleader, visiting scholar, and narrator in five languages at the young age of 80. He is also currently working with author Frank McCourt on a new setting of the Mass, "Missa Manhattan".