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Jeffrey Chappell
Jeffrey Chappell is the pianist in the contemporary jazz quartet, Otherworld, which won Global Music Awards for their two albums in 2015 and 2019. He has performed at the Stanford Jazz Festival, the East Coast Jazz Festival, and the Key West International Jazz Festival, as well as at the Alba Summer Festival in Italy.
As Director of Jazz Studies at Goucher College in Baltimore, Jeffrey Chappell conducted the Goucher College Jazz Ensemble. He was also co-chair of the Levine School of Music Jazz Department in Washington, D.C. and the conductor of the Levine School Jazz Ensemble.
As Director of the Goucher Summer Arts Institute Jazz Camp for middle and high school students from 1999 to 2013, he appeared in annual concerts in Baltimore, both as pianist and conductor.
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.
He has appeared with Jeff Antoniuk, Wes Crawford, Peter Diamond, Andre Enceneat, Paul Fischer, Emmanuel Fournier, Noah Getz, Pepe Gonzalez, Ken Hall, Seth Kibel, Jake Kohlhas, Skipper Kripitz, Lonny Jacobson, Rob Leon, Lynda MacNeil, Jake Marinari, Jon Mathis, Rich O’Meara, Jennifer Parde, John Pineda, Stan Wilkerson, Steve Sachse, Courtney Sappington, Chris Taylor, Roger Van Sant, Matthew Watson, and others.
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Collaboration with bassist Pepe Gonzalez: “Their alternately spacious and spry duets often evoked the richness, nuance and swing associated with Duke Ellington’s canon.” — WASHINGTON POST
“He continually defies the unwritten law that pianists can’t excel at both classical music and jazz.”— BALTIMORE MAGAZINE
“Jazz Sonata” CD: “Chappell plays Chappell with all the virtuosity, conviction, and innate sense of swing these works demand.” — CLASSICS TODAY.COM
