{"id":224,"date":"2016-03-26T22:16:41","date_gmt":"2016-03-27T02:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnchappell.dreamhosters.com\/?page_id=224"},"modified":"2026-01-27T09:18:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T14:18:16","slug":"biographical-information","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jeffreychappell.com\/pianist\/biographical-information\/","title":{"rendered":"BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"cs-content\" class=\"cs-content\"><div class=\"x-section e224-e1 m68-0\"><div class=\"x-bg\"><div class=\"x-bg-layer-lower-img\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jeffreychappell.com\/pianist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/AdobeStock_132749589_Scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Image\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/div><div class=\"x-bg-layer-upper-color\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"x-row x-container max width e224-e2 m68-1 m68-2\"><div class=\"x-row-inner\"><div class=\"x-col e224-e3 m68-3\"><div class=\"x-tabs e224-e4 m68-4\" data-x-element-tabs=\"\"><div class=\"x-tabs-list\"><ul role=\"tablist\"><li role=\"presentation\"><button id=\"tab-e224-e5\" class=\"e224-e5 x-active\" role=\"tab\" aria-selected=\"true\" aria-controls=\"panel-e224-e5\" data-x-toggle=\"tab\" data-x-toggleable=\"tab-item-e224-e5\" data-x-toggle-group=\"tab-group-e224-e4\" data-x-toggle-hash=\"general\"><span>GENERAL<\/span><\/button><\/li><li role=\"presentation\"><button id=\"tab-e224-e7\" class=\"e224-e7\" role=\"tab\" aria-selected=\"false\" aria-controls=\"panel-e224-e7\" data-x-toggle=\"tab\" data-x-toggleable=\"tab-item-e224-e7\" data-x-toggle-group=\"tab-group-e224-e4\" data-x-toggle-hash=\"jazz\"><span>JAZZ<\/span><\/button><\/li><li role=\"presentation\"><button id=\"tab-e224-e9\" class=\"e224-e9\" role=\"tab\" aria-selected=\"false\" aria-controls=\"panel-e224-e9\" data-x-toggle=\"tab\" data-x-toggleable=\"tab-item-e224-e9\" data-x-toggle-group=\"tab-group-e224-e4\" data-x-toggle-hash=\"orchestras\"><span>ORCHESTRAS<\/span><\/button><\/li><li role=\"presentation\"><button id=\"tab-e224-e11\" class=\"e224-e11\" role=\"tab\" aria-selected=\"false\" aria-controls=\"panel-e224-e11\" data-x-toggle=\"tab\" data-x-toggleable=\"tab-item-e224-e11\" data-x-toggle-group=\"tab-group-e224-e4\" data-x-toggle-hash=\"teaching\"><span>TEACHING<\/span><\/button><\/li><li role=\"presentation\"><button id=\"tab-e224-e13\" class=\"e224-e13\" role=\"tab\" aria-selected=\"false\" aria-controls=\"panel-e224-e13\" data-x-toggle=\"tab\" data-x-toggleable=\"tab-item-e224-e13\" data-x-toggle-group=\"tab-group-e224-e4\" data-x-toggle-hash=\"theater\"><span>THEATER<\/span><\/button><\/li><li role=\"presentation\"><button id=\"tab-e224-e15\" class=\"e224-e15\" role=\"tab\" aria-selected=\"false\" aria-controls=\"panel-e224-e15\" data-x-toggle=\"tab\" data-x-toggleable=\"tab-item-e224-e15\" data-x-toggle-group=\"tab-group-e224-e4\" data-x-toggle-hash=\"in-the-press\"><span>IN THE PRESS<\/span><\/button><\/li><li role=\"presentation\"><button id=\"tab-e224-e17\" class=\"e224-e17\" role=\"tab\" aria-selected=\"false\" aria-controls=\"panel-e224-e17\" data-x-toggle=\"tab\" data-x-toggleable=\"tab-item-e224-e17\" data-x-toggle-group=\"tab-group-e224-e4\"><span>Gallery<\/span><\/button><\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"x-tabs-panels\"><div id=\"panel-e224-e5\" class=\"x-tabs-panel e224-e5 x-active\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"tab-e224-e5\" aria-hidden=\"false\" data-x-toggleable=\"tab-item-e224-e5\"><div class=\"x-text x-content e224-e6 m68-5\"><h2 class=\"entry-title-page\">GENERAL<\/h2>\n<p><strong>For publicity purposes (208 words)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>JEFFREY CHAPPELL first gained national attention at the age of 24 by substituting for Claudio Arrau on four hours\u2019 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. Wherever he goes, he garners standing ovations from audiences and glowing praise from the press such as, \u201cSome rise above their colleagues in how well and originally they communicate. One of the latter is Jeffrey Chappell.\u2013New York Times\u201d and \u201cHis technique is mastered to the point that one forgets it. The heart rules the fingers.\u2013Le Soir, Brussels\u201d and \u201cChappell established an immediate bond between himself and the audience.\u2013Brazil Herald, Rio de Janeiro\u201d. 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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For program notes<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<h6><strong>Note: If copying for use in a concert program, this bio (422 words, 2756 characters) is followed by alternates edited for shorter length. You may use this bio or an alternate best suited to available space in your printed program.<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n<hr \/>\n<p>JEFFREY CHAPPELL, pianist, has performed throughout the United States and abroad in recitals and in chamber music. He has been a soloist with the symphony orchestras of Philadelphia, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Houston, Denver, Indianapolis, Oakland, Baton Rouge, and Key West as well as the Chamber Orchestra of Albuquerque, the Missouri Symphony, and the Mississippi Symphony. His many appearances with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra include concerts at Carnegie Hall and Wolf Trap Park, as well as a substitution for Claudio Arrau on four hours\u2019 notice, playing the Brahms Second Concerto without rehearsal and to critical acclaim. Many of his recitals and concerto performances have been heard on national and international radio broadcasts including Voice of America.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Chappell has toured South America with recitals in Brasilia, Rio de Janeiro, Caracas, and Surinam, and has given concerts with orchestras in Mexico City, El Salvador, and Quito. In Europe he has performed in France, Belgium, and the Czech Republic, and in Asia he has performed in Japan and Indonesia. He has appeared at summer music festivals in the United States, including Marlboro, Chautauqua, Spoleto, Ambler, Bedford Springs, and Tidewater, and in France at the Music at La Gesse Festival and the Musique d\u2019Et\u00e9 Festival. A prizewinner in numerous competitions, Mr. Chappell was a recipient of the Solo Recitalist Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Chappell is also an award-winning composer. His solo piano composition \u201cAmerican Sonata\u201d won the Keyboard Magazine Soundpage Competition, and \u201cShadowdance\u201d for piano and wind ensemble was commissioned by the Mid-Atlantic Chamber Orchestra, while he was their composer-in-residence, with a grant from the Meet The Composer Foundation. His recent works integrate techniques of classical composition with elements of American popular music, and can be heard on three recordings recently released on the Centaur label. As a recording artist, Mr. Chappell also made the world premiere recordings of the Piano Concerto by James Grant and \u201cThe Dream Wanderer\u201d by Sotireos Vlahopoulos. He has recorded on the Telarc, Centaur, Albany, Petrichor, MSR Classics, and MMC labels.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Chappell was a scholarship student of Leon Fleisher at the Peabody Conservatory and Eleanor Sokoloff and Rudolf Serkin at the Curtis Institute. His early studies were in St. Louis, Missouri, as the prot\u00e9g\u00e9 of Jane Allen. <span>Mr. Chappell is Professor Emeritus at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland where he taught for four decades, and is on the piano, theory, and jazz faculties of Levine Music in Washington, D.C.\u00a0<\/span> He was a contributing editor for Piano &amp; Keyboard Magazine. For more information, please visit jeffreychappell.com.<\/p>\n\n<h6><strong>Alternate 1 (223 words, 1482 characters)<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p>JEFFREY CHAPPELL has performed throughout the United States in recitals and chamber music and has been a soloist with major symphony orchestras including those of Philadelphia, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Houston, and Indianapolis. His many appearances with the Baltimore Symphony include concerts at Carnegie Hall and Wolf Trap, and a substitution for Claudio Arrau on four hours\u2019 notice playing the Brahms Second Concerto. Many of his performances have been heard on nationwide radio broadcasts. He has concertized in Europe, Asia, and Latin America, and has appeared at summer festivals including Marlboro and the La Gesse Festival. He was a recipient of the Solo Recitalist Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Mr. Chappell has recorded on the Telarc, Centaur, Albany, Petrichor, MSR Classics, and MMC record labels. His solo piano composition \u201cAmerican Sonata\u201d won the Keyboard Magazine Soundpage Competition, and \u201cShadowdance\u201d was commissioned by the Mid-Atlantic Chamber Orchestra with a grant from the Meet The Composer Foundation. He served as a contributing editor for Piano&amp;Keyboard Magazine. His teachers were Jane Allen, Eleanor Sokoloff and Rudolf Serkin at the Curtis Institute, and Leon Fleisher at the Peabody Institute. <span>He is Professor Emeritus at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland where he taught for four decades, and is on the piano, theory, and jazz faculties of Levine Music in Washington, D.C.<\/span>\u00a0For more information, visit jeffreychappell.com.<\/p>\n\n\n<hr \/>\n\n<h6><strong>Alternate 2 (131 words, 873 characters)<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p>JEFFREY CHAPPELL has performed throughout the United States in recitals and chamber music and has been a soloist with major symphony orchestras including those of Philadelphia, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Houston, and Indianapolis. He has concertized in Europe, Asia, and Latin America, and has appeared at summer festivals including Marlboro and the La Gesse Festival. Mr. Chappell is also a recording artist and an award-winning composer. His teachers were Jane Allen, Eleanor Sokoloff and Rudolf Serkin at the Curtis Institute, and Leon Fleisher at the Peabody Institute. <span>He is Professor Emeritus at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland where he taught for four decades, and is on the piano, theory, and jazz faculties of Levine Music in Washington, D.C.\u00a0<\/span> He was a contributing editor for Piano&amp;Keyboard Magazine. For more information, visit jeffreychappell.com.<\/p>\n\n\n<hr \/>\n\n<h6><strong>Alternate 3 (97 words, 627 characters)<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p><span>JEFFREY CHAPPELL\u00a0<\/span><span>has performed throughout the United States in recitals and chamber music, and has been a soloist with major symphony orchestras\u00a0<\/span><span>such as those of Philadelphia, St. Louis, and Baltimore.<\/span><span>\u00a0He\u00a0<\/span><span>has concertized\u00a0<\/span><span>in Europe, Asia, and Latin America, and is also a recording artist and an award-winning composer. His teachers were Jane Allen; Eleanor Sokoloff and Rudolf Serkin at the Curtis Institute; and Leon Fleisher at the Peabody Institute. He is Professor Emeritus at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland, and is on the faculty of Levine Music in Washington, D.C. For more information, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/jeffreychappell.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/jeffreychappell.com\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1756778707089000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2uJMikyqzT5h0wHYU2kbQN\" rel=\"noopener\">jeffreychappell.com<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Listen to Jeffrey Chappell being interviewed about a life in music in this half-hour\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/1278755\/5946970-music-magic-and-meditation-pianist-jeffrey-chappell-and-his-mentor-leon-fleisher\">\u201cMuse Mentors\u201d podcast<\/a>\u00a0from October 2020.<\/p><\/div><\/div><div id=\"panel-e224-e7\" class=\"x-tabs-panel e224-e7\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"tab-e224-e7\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-x-toggleable=\"tab-item-e224-e7\"><div class=\"x-text x-content e224-e8 m68-5\"><h2 class=\"entry-title-page\">JAZZ<\/h2>\n<h6><strong>PERFORMING<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p><span>Jeffrey Chappell is the pianist in the contemporary jazz quartet, Otherworld, which won Global Music Awards for each of their three albums.<\/span> He has performed at the Stanford Jazz Festival and the Key West International Jazz Festival as a pianist. He has appeared with Jeff Antoniuk, Wes Crawford, Peter Diamond, Andre Enceneat, Paul Fischer, Emmanuel Fournier, Noah Getz, Pepe Gonzalez, Ken Hall, Seth Kibel, Skipper Kripitz, Lonny Jacobson, Rob Leon, Lynda MacNeil, Jon Mathis, Rich O\u2019Meara, Jennifer Parde, John Pineda, Stan Wilkerson, Steve Sachse, Courtney Sappington, Roger Van Sant, Matthew Watson, and others.<\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey Chappell appeared at the East Coast Jazz Festival as a conductor of the Goucher College Jazz Ensemble and the Levine School of Music Jazz Ensemble. He has also led the Levine School of Music Jazz Ensemble in performance at Washington, D.C. venues including Carter Barron Amphitheater, the Folger Library, the National Building Museum, the Ronald Reagan Building, and Union Station.<\/p>\n<p>As Director of the Goucher Summer Arts Institute Jazz Camp from 1999 to 2013, he appeared in annual concerts at Goucher College in Baltimore, both as pianist and conductor.<\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey Chappell was the pianist and arranger for DC Express, a jazz vocal quartet plus piano, bass, and drums that held performances in Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Annapolis, suburban Maryland, and Virginia from 1995 to 1997. He has performed own solo jazz tune arrangements in his piano recitals since the 1980s.<\/p>\n\n<h6><strong>TEACHING AND ADMINISTRATION<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p>Jeffrey Chappell was the Director of Jazz Studies at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland from 2001 to 2020, where he taught courses in Jazz Theory I, Jazz Theory II, Improvisation, Jazz History, and Jazz Ensemble, as well as private lessons in classical piano, jazz piano, composing, arranging, and songwriting. He was the director of the Goucher Summer Arts Institute Jazz Camp for middle and high school students from 1999 to 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey Chappell is a faculty member at Levine Music in Washington, D.C., where he teaches jazz and classical piano and courses in Improvisation, Jazz Theory, Group Jazz Piano, Group Intro to Jazz (all instruments), Jazz History, and Chamber Music. He has also given courses in Improvisation and Intro to Jazz Piano for the Professional Studies Program at Levine Music, training faculty members how to teach jazz. He is a former Co-Chairman of the Jazz Department at the Levine School of Music.<\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey Chappell has given workshops training music teachers how to teach improvisation and jazz for the Maryland State Music Teachers Association,\u00a0 Washington (D.C.) Music Teachers Association,\u00a0 Northern Virginia Music Teachers Association, Montgomery County (MD) Music Teachers Association, Greater Laurel (MD) Music Teachers Association, California Music Educators Association (San Jose, CA), and Music For Minors II (Fremont, CA)<\/p>\n\n<h6><strong>IMPROVISATION VIDEO COURSE<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p>Jeffrey Chappell\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.udemy.com\/course\/the-definitive-guide-to-mastering-music-improvisation\/?dtcode=IuKfdi91PxhA\">The Definitive Guide to Mastering Music Improvisation<\/a>\u201d is a bestseller on udemy.com, a leading online video course platform. It has three hours of instruction about the benefits, techniques, and solutions to common barriers in music improvisation. For more information, visit the course\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.udemy.com\/the-definitive-guide-to-mastering-music-improvisation\/\">webpage<\/a>. You can also click to download a pdf of his\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/jeffreychappell.com\/pianist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Improvisation-Exercises.pdf\">Improvisation Exercises<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<h6><strong>RECORDINGS<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p>Jeffrey Chappell\u2019s solo piano arrangements of standard jazz tunes appear on \u201cPick It Up\u201d on the Centaur Records label. His jazz-inspired original compositions appear on \u201cJazz Sonata\u201d on the Centaur Records label. He performs his arrangement of his original tune, \u201cMelancholy Moon\u201d with clarinetist Chester Brezniak on \u201cClarinet Now\u201d on the Centaur Records label. His collaborations with saxophonist Noah Getz on jazz-inspired American compositions appear on \u201cCrossroads\u201d on the Albany Records label. For details visit the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jeffreychappell.com\/pianist\/recordings\/\">Recordings<\/a>\u00a0page on this website.<\/p>\n\n<h6><strong>COMPOSITIONS<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p>Jeffrey Chappell is the composer of numerous original works for solo piano and instrumental combinations, including jazz tunes, three piano sonatas including Jazz Sonata, and others. He has written numerous arrangements for jazz ensemble and for jazz vocal quartet a cappella and with rhythm section.<\/p>\n\n<h6><strong>PUBLICATIONS<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p>Jeffrey Chappell is the author of articles on jazz and reviews of jazz CDs for Piano &amp; Keyboard Magazine. These include \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/jeffreychappell.com\/pianist\/speaking-the-lingo-a-classical-pianist-explains-jazz\/\">Speaking the Lingo: Jazz Explained for Classical Musicians<\/a>\u201d and \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/jeffreychappell.com\/pianist\/start-playing-jazz-in-about-five-minutes\/\">Start Playing Jazz in About Five Minutes<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n\n<h6><strong>MUSICAL TRAINING<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p>Jeffrey Chappell studied jazz privately with Charles Covington and Pepe Gonzalez, and participated in workshops with Mark Levine and Benny Green. He attended the New York Voices Summer Vocal Jazz Camp as a student in 2017, 2018, and 2020, working with Darmon Meader, Kim Nazarian, Lauren Kinhan, and Peter Eldridge.<\/p>\n\n<h6><strong>PRESS NOTICES<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p>Collaboration with bassist Pepe Gonzalez:\u00a0<em>\u201cTheir alternately spacious and spry duets often evoked the richness, nuance and swing associated with Duke Ellington\u2019s canon.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0<span class=\"source\"><em>\u2014\u00a0WASHINGTON POST<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Gershwin\u2019s Variations on I Got Rhythm with the Key West Pops Orchestra:\u00a0<em>\u201cJeffrey, who has jazz chops in addition to a formidable classical technique, made a complete success out of Gershwin\u2019s effort, even to the point of giving the faster passages a bebop articulation which the composer would surely have arrived at, had he lived long enough to hear it.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0<span class=\"source\"><em>\u2014\u00a0KEY WEST SOLARES HILL<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cJazz Sonata\u201d CD:\u00a0<em>\u201cChappell plays Chappell with all the virtuosity, conviction, and innate sense of swing these works demand.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0<span class=\"source\"><em>\u2014\u00a0CLASSICS TODAY.COM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cHe continually defies the unwritten law that pianists can\u2019t excel at both classical music and jazz.\u201d<\/em><span class=\"source\"><em>\u2014\u00a0BALTIMORE MAGAZINE<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/div><\/div><div id=\"panel-e224-e9\" class=\"x-tabs-panel e224-e9\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"tab-e224-e9\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-x-toggleable=\"tab-item-e224-e9\"><div class=\"x-text x-content e224-e10 m68-5\"><h2 class=\"entry-title-page\">ORCHESTRAS<\/h2>\n\n<p id=\"maincontent\">Jeffrey Chappell has performed as concerto soloist with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra over forty times, including concerts at Carnegie Hall and Wolf Trap Park, as well as a substitution for Claudio Arrau playing the Brahms Concerto No. 2 on four hours\u00b4 notice. He has also appeared with the symphony orchestras of Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Houston, Indianapolis, Denver, Oakland, Albuquerque, Baton Rouge and Annapolis, and with the Missouri Symphony, the Mississippi Symphony Orchestra, South Florida Symphony Orchestra, Key West Symphony Orchestra, Key West Pops Orchestra, Santa Cruz (CA) Symphony, Paducah (KY) Symphony Orchestra, Columbus (GA) Symphony Orchestra, York (PA) Symphony Orchestra, and Lima (OH) Symphony Orchestra.<\/p>\n<p>Nationwide radio broadcasts were made of Chappell\u2019s performances of the Barber Concerto with the Philadelphia Orchestra and of the Brahms Concerto No. 2 and the Khachaturian Concerto with the Baltimore Symphony. He has made two concerto recordings with the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra and one with the Key West Symphony Orchestra.<\/p>\n<p>Abroad, Chappell has performed with the El Salvador National Symphony Orchestra in San Salvador, the Orquesta Sinfonica de Mineria in Mexico City, the Orquesta Filarmonica del Ecuador in Quito, the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra in Prague, and the Romanian State Philharmonic Orchestra in Alba, Italy.<\/p>\n<p>Chappell has appeared with the orchestras of the Suwannee Summer Festival (TN), Chautauqua Summer Institute Festival (NY), Bedford Springs Summer Festival (PA), and Ambler Summer Festival (PA).<\/p>\n<p>In the Baltimore\/Washington region, Chappell has performed with the Amadeus Orchestra, Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, Chesapeake Orchestra, Fairfax Symphony (VA), Frederick Symphony (MD), Goucher Symphony Orchestra (MD), Mid-Atlantic Chamber Orchestra, National Gallery Orchestra, Orchestra of St. John\u2019s, Prince George\u2019s Philharmonic (MD), and Washington Symphony Orchestra.<\/p>\n<p>Chappell has collaborated with conductors Patricio Aizaga, Sebrina Maria Alfonso, Robert Hart Baker, Alan Balter, George Barati, Crafton Beck, Jacques Brourman, Richard Buckley, Catherine Comet, Sergiu Comissiona, William Henry Curry, George Del Gobbo, Carmine Ficocelli, Leon Fleisher, Ray Fowler, James Grant, Anne Harrigan, William Hudson, David Itkin, Stewart Kershaw, Charles Ketcham, Eric Knight, Elisa Koehler, Michael Lankester, David Livingston, George Manos, Daniel McDavitt, Ronald Mutchnik, Timothy Muffitt, Jos\u00e9-Luis Novo, David Oberg, Gilberto Orellana, Andrew Schenk, Jeffrey Silberschlag, Calvin Simmons, William Smith, Jordan Tang, Vladimir Valek, Jorge Velazco, Hugo Vianello, Yuval Waldman, A. Scott Wood, David Zinman, and Vincent Zito.<\/p>\n\n<p>The works for piano and orchestra performed by Jeffrey Chappell include the Bach D Minor Concerto, Barber Concerto, Beethoven Concertos Nos. 1, 3, 4, 5, Triple Concerto, and Choral Fantasy, Brahms Concertos Nos. 1 and 2, D\u00b4Indy Symphony on a French Mountain Air, Dohnanyi Variations on a Children\u2019s Song, Gershwin Concerto, Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue and \u201cI Got Rhythm\u201d Variations, Grieg Concerto, Khachaturian Concerto, MacDowell Concerto No. 2, Mendelssohn Concerto No. 1 and Capriccio Brillante, Mozart Concertos K.467, K. 488, and K. 503, Poulenc Concerto for Two Pianos, Prokofieff Concertos Nos. 1 and 3, Rachmaninoff Concertos Nos. 2 and 3 and Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Saint-Saens Concerto No. 2 and Carnival of the Animals, Scriabin \u201cPrometheus: Poem of Fire\u201d, Shostakovitch Concerto No. 2, and Stravinsky Concerto for Piano and Winds. His repertoire includes many other concertos.<\/p>\n<p>Chappell also gave the world premiere performances of the \u201cPiano Concerto\u201d by James Grant, \u201cTheme Stream\u201d by James Grant, \u201cThe Dream Wanderer\u201d by Sotireos Vlahopoulos, and his own compositions \u201cShadowdance\u201d and \u201cSongs for Milla\u201d, as well as the Mid-Atlantic premiere of the \u201cAlberta Concerto\u201d by Minuetta Kessler.<\/p>\n<p>Chappell has served as orchestral pianist with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra (James DePriest, guest conductor), Baltimore Chamber Orchestra (Anne Harrigan, conductor), Mid-Atlantic Chamber Orchestra (Yuval Waldman, conductor), Eclipse Chamber Orchestra (Sylvia Alimena, conductor), Baltimore Choral Arts Society (Tom Hall, conductor), The Master Chorale of Washington (Donald McCullough, conductor), New Dominion Chorale (Thomas Beveridge, conductor), and South Florida Symphony Orchestra and Key West Symphony Orchestra (Sebrina Maria Alfonso, conductor).<\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey Chappell is the orchestral pianist and\/or keyboard player on the Baltimore Symphony recordings of Stravinsky Petrushka (Zinman), Copland Rodeo\/Billy the Kid\/El Salon Mexico\/Danzon Cubano (Zinman), Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 3 and Symphonic Dances (Zinman), Michael Torke \u201cColor Music\u201d (Zinman), \u201cDance Mix\u201d (Zinman), Saint-Saens Symphony No. 3 (Comissiona), and Tchaikovsky Nutcracker Suite (Comissiona).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><div id=\"panel-e224-e11\" class=\"x-tabs-panel e224-e11\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"tab-e224-e11\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-x-toggleable=\"tab-item-e224-e11\"><div class=\"x-text x-content e224-e12 m68-5\"><h2 class=\"entry-title-page\">TEACHING<\/h2>\n<p>In 2020, Jeffrey Chappell retired as Professor Emeritus from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.goucher.edu\/\">Goucher College<\/a>\u00a0in Baltimore, Maryland where he served on the full-time faculty as a piano instructor and as the Director of Jazz Studies. He maintains a teaching schedule at Levine Music in Washington, D.C., and at his home studio. In addition, he gives master classes, workshops, and guest lectures at other venues. He has presented numerous teacher training courses in jazz and improvisation for chapters of the Music Teacher National Association. He is also the creator of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/musiceverybody.net\/\">Music Everybody<\/a>, a weekend seminar series.<\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey Chappell\u2019s teaching is client-oriented, placing importance on the goals of the student and on approaches to problem-solving that are adapted to each individual. He says, \u201cIn the larger sense, I don\u2019t teach music. I teach the development of human potential through music: our ability make free, informed choices from an array of options, as opposed to learning just one way to do something. I see my job as acquainting students with more and more options to choose from and providing them with the means to fulfill their intentions.\u201d You can find a full statement of his teaching philosophy\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/jeffreychappell.com\/pianist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Jeffrey-Chappell-Teaching-Philosophy.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Students of Jeffrey Chappell have been accepted to The Juilliard School, Yale University, Peabody Conservatory of Music, Oberlin Conservatory, University of Michigan, University of Maryland, Hartt School of Music, Columbia University, Brigham Young University, Boston University, Princeton University, and Catholic University of America, among others. Many have gone on to professional careers as performers, teachers, and recording artists, and among them are a record company executive, a jazz singer, a rock songwriter, and two members of the progressive band Lake Trout. Several are prizewinners in music competitions, and one was selected as the youngest (15 years old) participant in the 2002\u00a0Betty Carter\u2019s Jazz Ahead residency for composers at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.<\/p>\n<p>At Goucher College, Chappell\u00a0taught private piano lessons in classical music and jazz; classes in jazz improvisation, jazz theory, jazz history, jazz composition, chamber music, senior integrative projects and independent study; and conducted the jazz ensemble. He was the director of the Goucher Summer Arts Institute Jazz Camp for middle- and high school students from 1999 to 2013.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1em; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0em;\">At <\/span><a style=\"font-size: 1em; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0em;\" href=\"http:\/\/levinemusic.org\/\">Levine Music<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1em; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0em;\">, Chappell teaches private piano lessons in classical music and jazz, and has given classes in improvisation, jazz theory, jazz combo, jazz history, adult beginning jazz piano, and intro to jazz for adults (all instruments). He also has served as Co-Chairman of the Jazz Department.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In the course of teaching these subjects at both schools and at home, Chappell has also been called upon to provide instruction in composition, songwriting, arranging, jazz singing, classical music theory, and classical music history.<\/p>\n<p>Chappell has served as a w<span class=\"s1\">orkshop leader,\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s2\">training music teachers how to teach improvisation and jazz, for the Maryland State Music Teachers Association, Washington (D.C.) Music Teachers Association, Northern Virginia Music Teachers Association, Montgomery County (MD) Music Teachers Association, Greater Laurel (MD) Music Teachers Association, California Music Educators Association, and Music For Minors II (Fremont, CA). He\u00a0<\/span>has also given teacher training classes in improvisation, jazz piano, and piano literature to faculty members for the Levine School Professional Development Program.<\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey Chappell is a member of the\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtna.org\/\">Music Teachers National Association<\/a>, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.capmt.org\/\">California Association of Professional Music Teachers<\/a>, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.msmta.org\/\">Maryland State Music Teachers Association<\/a>, and the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wmta-dc.org\/\">Washington (D.C.) Music Teachers Association.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<hr \/>\n\n<h4>ARTICLES FOR STUDENTS<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jeffreychappell.com\/pianist\/articles\/methods-for-practicing\/\">Methods for Practicing<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/jeffreychappell.com\/pianist\/articles\/the-use-of-the-pedals\/\">Use of the Pedals<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/jeffreychappell.com\/pianist\/articles\/scales-and-arpeggios\/\">Scales and Arpeggios<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div><div id=\"panel-e224-e13\" class=\"x-tabs-panel e224-e13\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"tab-e224-e13\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-x-toggleable=\"tab-item-e224-e13\"><div class=\"x-text x-content e224-e14 m68-5\"><h2>THEATER<\/h2>\n<h6><strong>MUSICAL THEATER<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p>Jeffrey Chappell was a member of the Advanced Class of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop in New York City from 1999 to 2003. The workshop, considered by many to be the most prestigious of its kind, is named after its founding teacher and is sponsored by BMI, the music royalties and licensing operation. In the class, about forty composers and lyricists collaborate on projects, present them, and receive critiques from other class members and the teacher. Graduates of the workshop include Alan Menken, composer of \u201cThe Little Mermaid\u201d etc. for Disney, and Maury Yeston, composer of the Broadway hit \u201cTitanic\u201dand current moderator of the Advanced Class.<\/p>\n<p>After joining the Workshop in 1996, Chappell composed musical theater songs in collaboration with numerous lyricists, including a 10-minute musical with Mindy Weissberger and several projects with Ed Sugarman. Chappell\u2019s works with Sugarman were featured in the New York City production of Sugarman\u2019s \u201cLyrics By Me\u201d. Chappell\u2019s participation in the class has extended into his teaching at Levine Music in Washington, D.C., where he has given classes in songwriting.<\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey Chappell was the conductor for \u201cThe Wizard of Oz\u201d at the Tennessee Williams Fine Arts Center in Key West, Florida. The Keys Kids Production was cast with elementary, middle, and high school students from schools in the Florida Keys, and the orchestra consisted of members of the Key West Symphony.<\/p>\n\n<h6><strong>DRAMA<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p>Jeffrey Chappell was the music director for \u201cArpeggio Major\u201d, Barry Knower\u2019s winner of the Tampa Playmakers National Playwright Competition. The play, which is about a concert pianist, required a recorded soundtrack of standard classical repertoire, jazz improvisations, and music composed specifically for the action of the play. The Tampa Tribune wrote, \u201cJeffrey Chappell\u2019s musical direction, performance and original compositions are brilliant, one of the clear high-points of the show.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey Chappell served as the onstage musician for the play \u201cButterfingers Angel\u201d at the Olney Theater in Olney, Maryland.<\/p>\n\n<h6><strong>CABARET<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p>Jeffrey Chappell was the music director, pianist, and arranger for \u201cHidden Voices,\u201d a cabaret show on the topic of singers who dubbed for movie musicals. Starring soprano Ludmilla Ilieva, the show ran for over a year in New York City with runouts to Baltimore and Washington, D.C. Time Out New York Magazine wrote about \u201cmusical director Jeffrey Chappell\u2019s inventive arrangements\u201d and the Washington Post mentioned \u201cpianist (and occasionally vocal duet partner) Jeffrey Chappell contributing significantly to a very polished performance.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<h6><strong>BALLET<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p>Jeffrey Chappell served as rehearsal pianist for Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. for their production of \"Marguerite and Armand\". The music was the Liszt Piano Sonata, choreographed by Frederick Ashton.<\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey Chappell accompanied the Stuttgart Ballet at the Metropolitan Opera House of Lincoln Center in New York City and at the Opera House of The Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. He performed the Brahms Second Piano Concerto, choreographed by John Cranko as \"Initials RBME\".<\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey Chappell is the pianist in the recording of Paul Nordoff\u2019s score, \u201cEvery Soul Is A Circus\u201d, used in all performances of that work by the Martha Graham Dance Company.<\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey Chappell accompanied the Ballet of Central China at the Opera House of the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n\n<h6><strong>FILM<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p>Jeffrey Chappell has improvised piano music for numerous silent films at the National Gallery of Art.<\/p>\n\n<h6><strong>TELEVISION<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p>Jeffrey Chappell recorded the soundtrack of Russian piano music for the series \u201cWings of the Red Star\u201d, produced by the Discovery Channel.<\/p>\n\n<h6><strong>TEACHING<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p>Jeffrey Chappell presented a lecture-recital at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting in New York City addressing the parallels between acting and performing music. The following is a transcript of the lecture:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jeffreychappell.com\/pianist\/articles\/in-music-as-in-acting\/\">\u201cIn Music As In Acting\u201d<\/a>.<\/p><\/div><\/div><div id=\"panel-e224-e15\" class=\"x-tabs-panel e224-e15\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"tab-e224-e15\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-x-toggleable=\"tab-item-e224-e15\"><div class=\"x-text x-content e224-e16 m68-5\"><header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h2 class=\"entry-title-page\">IN THE PRESS<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content-page\">\n<div class=\"normal\">\n<p class=\"review\">&ldquo;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&rsquo;s Gaspard de la Nuit which was one of the finest this writer has heard.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p class=\"source\">&ndash; NEW YORK TIMES<\/p>\n<p class=\"review\">&ldquo;Jeffrey Chappell in the prominent piano part was spectacular.&rdquo; (Scriabin&rsquo;s &lsquo;Prometheus: Poem of Fire&rsquo; at Carnegie Hall with the Baltimore Symphony conducted by Sergiu Comissiona)<\/p>\n<p class=\"source\">&mdash; NEW YORK DAILY NEWS<\/p>\n<p class=\"review\">&ldquo;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.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p class=\"source\">&ndash; BALTIMORE NEWS-AMERICAN<\/p>\n<p class=\"review\">&ldquo;Chappell is remarkable in intelligence and sensitivity. His technique is mastered to the point that one forgets it. The heart rules the fingers.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p class=\"source\">&ndash; LE SOIR, BRUSSELS<\/p>\n<p class=\"review\">&ldquo;Jeffrey Chappell, soloist in Rhapsody in Blue, stylistically was one of the most persuasive pianists I&rsquo;ve heard.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p class=\"source\">&ndash; HOUSTON CHRONICLE<\/p>\n<p class=\"review\">&ldquo;In &lsquo;American Sonata&rsquo;, 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 &lsquo;jazzical&rsquo;.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p class=\"source\">&ndash; WASHINGTON TIMES<\/p>\n<p class=\"review\">&ldquo;Chappell established an immediate bond between himself and the audience. His Debussy &lsquo;Images&rsquo; transported the listener into a forgotten world.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p class=\"source\">&ndash; BRAZIL HERALD, RIO DE JANEIRO<\/p>\n<p class=\"review\">&ldquo;Chappell burst through the Barber Concerto with an unswerving grip on the quick-changing meters.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p class=\"source\">&ndash; PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER<\/p>\n<p class=\"review\">&ldquo;He continually defies the unwritten law that pianists can&rsquo;t excel at both classical music and jazz.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p class=\"source\">&mdash; BALTIMORE MAGAZINE<\/p>\n<p class=\"review\">&ldquo;Jeffrey Chappell showed us his clean, beautiful interpretation and his enormous resources as a pianist.&rdquo; (MacDowell Second Concerto)<\/p>\n<p class=\"source\">&mdash; EL SALVADOR TODAY&rsquo;S NEWS<\/p>\n<p class=\"review\">&ldquo;An extremely talented pianist with power to spare.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p class=\"source\">&mdash; ST. LOUIS GLOBE-DEMOCRAT<\/p>\n<p class=\"review\">&ldquo;Performances of Ravel&rsquo;s Jeux d&acute;Eau and Toccata were fashioned with crispness, lightness and mesmerizing tonal balance, and if the powerful repeated-note figures at the opening of the &lsquo;Toccata&rsquo; were impressive, the final pages were simply breathtaking.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p class=\"source\">&ndash; WASHINGTON POST<\/p>\n<p class=\"review\">&ldquo;With the world premiere of his piano sonata, &lsquo;On The Wing&rsquo;, Mr. Chappell weaves jazz and classical music ideas together in a composition that leaves a listener feeling airborne. The second movement is the most spellbinding.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p class=\"source\">&mdash; BALTIMORE SUN<\/p>\n<p class=\"source\"><span style=\"font-size: 1em; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0em;\">&ldquo;There was an infectious grace to his art. It fell easily upon the ears, slipping into the heart like an enchantment. He caught the essence of Mozart&rsquo;s classical style in fluid, transparent playing of tensile strength and radiant ease, always balanced, never a muscle showing. The sharpness of his rhythmic sense and the seeming spontaneity of his responses carried echoes of the jazz world. This freshness was particularly true in the bare, exposed lines of the second movement, which Chappell infused with wonder as if hearing them for the first time. That movement&rsquo;s close turned into a gossamer illusion, the upward piano scale dissolving into thin air. In the third movement, he treated each return of the rondo theme as a delicious surprise.&rdquo; (Mozart Concerto K. 503)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"normal\">\n<p class=\"source\">&ndash; THE ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL<\/p>\n<p class=\"review\">&ldquo;The masterpiece of the program was Barber&rsquo;s Sonata for Piano, Opus 26, which Chappell delivered with a bravura albeit sensitive performance. Chappell is one fine pianist, with more than enough virtuosity for this magnificent work. He had power, virtuosity, clarity and sensitivity, but more importantly, he was able to convey his understanding of the difficult work to the audience. Chappell&rsquo;s was a magnificent performance of a great work.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p class=\"source\">&ndash; MONTPELIER TIMES ARGUS<\/p>\n<p class=\"review\">&ldquo;This piece is one of Gershwin&rsquo;s attempts to bridge the gap between classical music and jazz, and Jeffrey, who has jazz chops in addition to a formidable classical technique, made a complete success out of Gershwin&rsquo;s effort, even to the point of giving the faster passages a bebop articulation which the composer would surely have arrived at, had he lived long enough to hear it.&rdquo; (Gershwin&rsquo;s &ldquo;I Got Rhythm&rdquo; Variations with the Key West Pops Orchestra)<\/p>\n<p class=\"source\">&ndash; KEY WEST SOLARES HILL<\/p>\n<p class=\"review\">&ldquo;Chappell&rsquo;s virtuosity was always honestly applied and impassioned. This was a large-scale, volatile, sweepingly dramatic interpretation.&rdquo; (Barber Piano Sonata at the National Gallery of Art)<\/p>\n<p class=\"source\">&ndash; WASHINGTON POST<\/p>\n<p class=\"review\">&ldquo;From the very first notes it was clear that this was going to be a performance marked by both fun and virtuosity &ndash; and we were certainly not disappointed. Chappell not only exhibited a very formidable piano technique but demonstrated a broad range of feeling for the music, from the impishly playful in the first movement to the delicately lyrical in the second. In the impulsive third movement he tossed off clusters of notes as effortlessly as though they were confetti: colorful, light and dazzling to the ear. The Shostakovich was outstanding, and was, in fact, one of the highlights of this 2009-2010 concert season.&rdquo; (Shostakovich Second Concerto with the Annapolis Symphony conducted by&nbsp;Jos&eacute;-Luis Novo)<\/p>\n<p class=\"source\">&ndash; ANNAPOLIS CAPITAL<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"panel-e224-e17\" class=\"x-tabs-panel e224-e17\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"tab-e224-e17\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-x-toggleable=\"tab-item-e224-e17\"><div class=\"x-text x-content e224-e18 m68-5\"><p>The following Images may be used for publicity purposes. 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