Events
October 3, 2025
Vassar College presents an all-Alpher recital featuring five of his art-song sets. Performed by Courtenay Budd, soprano; Sharon Harms, soprano; Robert Osborne, bass-baritone; and the composer at the piano.
August/September, 2025
New York cabaret club Don’t Tell Mama presents Relatively Singing, a family cabaret with Jennie Litt and Mirabelle Alpher, vocals; and David Alpher, piano.
July 2015-2025
Alpher and Jennie Litt teach cabaret at Summerkeys in Lubec, Maine, and perform cabaret with original songs as well as material from the Great American Songbook.
June 24, 2017
Alpher premieres his song set Between Twilights: Seven Songs on Poems by Marsden Hartley at Rockport Chamber Music Festival, Rockport, Mass., with Robert Osborne, bass- baritone.
February 4, 2017
Alpher music- directs Vassar College Modfest Cabaret, directed by Jennie Litt. Martel Recital Hall.
February 1, 2017
Alpher's quartet for piano and strings (Song Without Words) performed at Vassar College.
July 2, 2016
Alpher and mezzo-soprano Anna DeGraff present a recital at Beacon Hill Concerts, Stroudsburg, Pa.
May 14, 2016
Two songs by Alpher and Jennie Litt are performed at the American Popular Song Society, New York City.
March 19 and 20, 2016
Two songs by Alpher and Jennie Litt are performed at the American Popular Song Society, New York City.
March 19 and 20, 2016
Alpher and Jennie Litt present a cabaret workshop for BACA (Boston Association of Cabaret Artists), in Framingham, Mass.
January 30, 2016
Gregg Michalak, pianist, performs Alpher's Elegy for a Friend at Vassar College's Modfest.
January 30, 2016
Alpher and Jennie Litt present a master class at Vassar College on the art and techniques of cabaret performance.
September 15, 2012
Alpher and Jennie Litt perform their show The Things that Make Us Sing at Vassar College
August 18, 2012
Alpher and Jennie Litt perform their show The People's Cabaret at the Dissident Arts Festival, New York City, at The Brecht Forum in Manhattan.
August 8, 2012
Alpher's chamber work The Walrus and the Carpenter performed at SummerKeys in Lubec, Maine. Performing: Suzanne Gilchrest, flute; Winslow Browning, narrator, and others on the SummerKeys faculty. 7:30 PM.
July 7, 2012
Alpher and Jennie Litt perform at Storefront Acoustic #10, A Monthly Songwriter Series. 7:30 PM at the R Patisserie Cafe & Tea Boutique, 302 Huguenot St. in New Rochelle, N.Y.
May 17, 2012
Alpher and Jennie Litt perform their show The Things that Make Us Sing at The Triad in Manhattan.
March 17, 2012
Alpher and Jennie Litt perform their show Composing Ourselves at The Black Fox Lounge in Washington, DC.
August 13, 2011
Bass-baritone Peter Walker and Alpher perform a recital of British art songs at Christ Church, Poughkeepsie, NY.
June 9, 2011
Alpher and members of The Ikarus Chamber Players premiere his Song Without Words (a quartet for piano and strings) at the Rockport Chamber Music Festival.
January 12 and 29, 2011
Alpher and Jennie Litt bring their New York debut show Composing Ourselves to the Metropolitan Room in Manhattan.
July 19, 26, 31, 2010
Alpher and Jennie Litt present their official New York cabaret debut show, Composing Ourselves, at Don't Tell Mama, Manhattan.
March 10, 2010
Alpher's Song of Witness performed at the Tucson Winter Chamber Music Festival, Tucson, Ariz. Performing: Christopheren Nomura, Roger Chase, Carol Wincenc, Steven Doane, and Bernadene Blaha.
March 10, 2010
Alpher and Jennie Litt are featured cabaret artists at The Iguana, 240 West 54th Street, New York, presenting original songs.
May 30, 2009
An all-David Alpher concert presented by the Concerts Con Brio series, at Christ Episcopal Church in Poughkeepsie, NY. This will be a program of mainly vocal music, sung by Robert Osborne, Sarah Levine Simon, Lila Deis, Jennie Litt and others.
July 25, 2008
Excerpts from Alpher's Land of the Farther Suns performed by Justin Kolb, pianist, and Mikhail Horowitz, narrator, at the Bellayre Festival in Highmount, N.Y.
May 31, 2008
Alpher's Las Meninas: Variations performed by Randall Ellis, oboe; Abby Newton, cello; Marc Wolf, guitar; and David Alpher, piano; at the Chamber Arts Festival of Marbletown in Stone Ridge, N.Y.
October 13, 2007
Alpher's composition The Walrus and The Carpenter performed by Quartetto Sereno at the Altes Kurhaus in Aachen, Germany
March 17, 2007
Alpher's composition The Walrus and The Carpenter performed by Quartetto Sereno at Wiehl (near Cologne), Germany
March 16, 2007
Alpher's composition The Walrus and The Carpenter performed by Quartetto Sereno at Haltern am See (near Dortmund), Germany
January 5, 2007
Alpher and Jennie Litt perform their show The People's Cabaret at PeaceSmiths Topical Atypical Coffeehouse in Amityville, N.Y.
August 26, 2006
Alpher and Jennie Litt perform Rodgers with Hart & Hammerstein: An Evening of Songs in Matched Pairs at Thompson House Resort, Windham, N.Y.
June 29, 2006
Alpher and Jennie Litt perform their Rodgers & Hart /Rodgers & Hammerstein show at the Rockport Chamber Music Festival, Rockport, Mass., as part of its 25th anniversary season.
June 28, 2006
Alpher, Lila Deis and others perform a Viennese program as part of the 25th anniversary of the Rockport Chamber Music Festival, Rockport, Mass.
June 17, 2006
Alpher and Jennie Litt perform Rodgers with Hart & Hammerstein: An Evening of Songs in Matched Pairs at Thompson House Resort, Windham, N.Y.
June 10—11, 2006
Alpher and Jennie Litt perform their program of original songs, Smart-Alecky Songs For Serious Times, at the West End Theater, Gloucester, Mass.
June 9—10, 2006
Alpher and Jennie Litt perform excerpts from Smart-Alecky Songs For Serious Times at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
June 3, 2006
Alpher, Jennie Litt and Philip Furia present the premiere of their Rodgers & Hart / Rodgers & Hammerstein show at the Chamber Arts Festival of Marbletown, Quimby Theater, SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge, N.Y.
June 2, 2006
Alpher's Land of the Farther Suns performed by Flute Force and Alpher (piano) at the Chamber Arts Festival of Marbletown, Quimby Theater, SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge, N.Y.
May 18, 2006
Alpher and Jennie Litt perform selections from Smart-Alecky Songs For Serious Times (Alpher/Litt all-original cabaret) at the High Falls Café, High Falls, N.Y.
March 29, 2006
Alpher and Jennie litt perform their cabaret of original songs, Songs in a Moribund Idiom, at Marist College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
March 25, 2006
Alpher, Jennie Litt, and Cantor Bob Cohen peform an all-Irving Berlin show, Another Serving of Irving, at Temple Emanuel, Kingston, N.Y.
February 24, 2006
The Elegant and the Immigrant: Cole Porter and Irving Berlin Together, a show of songs in matched pairs, conceived of and performed by Alpher and Jennie Litt, at Christ Episcopal Church, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
February 17 and 18, 2006
Performances of of Alpher's and Jennie Litt's cabaret of their original songs, Songs in a Moribund Idiom, at the West End Theater, Gloucester, Mass.
December 3, 2005
Twentieth-anniversary celebration of Alpher's song “Christmas in Rockport” (lyrics by Dorothy R. Stoffa) at the tree-lighting ceremony in Rockport, Mass.
November 19 and 20, 2005
World premiere of Alpher's Cantilena for flute and piano, performed by Sally Schlichting, flute, and Sam Williams, viola, at Aldersgate Methodist Church, Juneau, Alaska.
November 11, 2005
Alpher's Land of the Farther Suns performed by Flute Force with Jennie Litt, narrator, and Alpher (piano) at the Bloomingdale School of Music, New York City.
October 15, 2005
Premiere of Alpher's and Jennie Litt's cabaret of their original songs, Songs in a Moribund Idiom, at The Quest, Stone Ridge, N.Y.
September 16, 2005
Alpher's Three Psalms performed as part of Hurricane Katrina benefit concert, Christ Episcopal Church, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
August 11, 2005
David Alpher's Three Psalms premiered at The Parish Church of Moseley, Birmingham, England.
June 4, 2005
Alpher's Pathways for clarinet, violin and piano performed by the Verdehr Trio at the Chamber Arts Festival of Marbletown, Stone Ridge, N.Y.
May 28, 2005
Alpher's Ritornello for flute and piano performed by Christiane Meininger, flute, and Rainer Gepp, piano, at the Chamber Arts Festival of Marbletown, Stone Ridge, N.Y.
May 27, 2005
Debut of the Chamber Arts Festival of Marbletown. David Alpher is founder and artistic director; Howard Mont is founder and director of operations.
May 26, 2005
Alpher’s Ritornello for flute and piano performed by Christiane Meininger, flute, and Rainer Gepp, piano, at the Union College Concert Series, Schenectady, N.Y.
February 23, 2005
Alpher, Soprano Harolyn Blackwell and baritone Christopheren Nomura perform art songs and duets at a private event, in New York City to benefit the Chamber Arts Festival of Marbletown.
February 2, 2005
Alpher appears as pianist at the Cleveland Institute of Art's 25th Anniversary Gala Music Series. He plays Schubert songs with Christopheren Nomura, as well as Poulenc's Le Bal Masqué with Nomura and the Modus Ensemble.
January 30, 2005
Pianist Douglas Riva performs Alpher's Las Meninas: Variations at Teller Hall, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.