JEFFREY CHAPPELL, pianist, has performed throughout the United States and abroad in recitals and in chamber music. He has been a soloist with the Philadelphia, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Houston, Denver, Indianapolis, Oakland and Key West Symphony Orchestras to name a few. His frequent 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 notice, playing the Brahms Second Concerto without rehearsal and to critical acclaim.

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 and San Salvador. In Europe he has performed in France, Belgium, and the Czech Republic, and in Asia he has performed in Japan and Indonesia. He has participated in summer music festivals in the United States, including Marlboro, Chautauqua, Spoleto, Bedford Springs, and Tidewater, and in France at the Music at La Gesse Festival and the Musique d'Eté Festival. Many of his recitals and concerto performances have been heard on nationwide radio broadcasts. A prizewinner in numerous competitions, Mr. Chappell was a recipient of the Solo Recitalist Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Mr. Chappell made the world premiere recordings of the Piano Concerto by James Grant and "The Dream Wanderer" by Sotireos Vlahopoulos. He has been recorded on the Telarc, Centaur, and MMC labels. Mr. Chappell is also an award-winning composer. His recent works integrate techniques of classical composition with elements of American popular music. His solo piano composition "American Sonata" won the Keyboard Magazine Soundpage Competition, and "Shadowdance" for piano and wind ensemble was commissioned by the Mid-Atlantic Chamber Orchestra with a grant from the Meet The Composer Foundation.

Mr. Chappell was a scholarship student of Leon Fleisher at the Peabody Conservatory and Eleanor Sokoloff at the Curtis Institute. Early studies were in St. Louis, Missouri, as the protégé of Jane Allen. Mr. Chappell is on the faculties of Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland, and the Levine School of Music in Washington, D.C. He was a contributing editor for Piano & Keyboard Magazine.