Pianist Gary Chapman has appeared as soloist with the Hartford and New Haven Symphonies, the Connecticut Orchestra at Summer Music, Eastern Connecticut Symphony, and Orchestra New England. He has also appeared as a collaborative pianist at the Spoleto USA Festival, the 92nd Street Y, Merkin Hall, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., Yale at Norfolk, the Chamber Music Society at Yale, Music Mountain, the Arizona Friends of Chamber Music in Tuscon, AZ, and in Europe at Wigmore Hall in London, the Salle Cortot and American Embassy in Paris, the Pyramid in Tirane, Albania, and at colleges and universites throughout the US. He has toured with soprano Dawn Upshaw, baritone Richard Lalli, and recorded the companion compact disc with Mr. Lalli for the book, Listening to Classic American Popular Songs, featuring Mr. Chapman's arrangements, published by the Yale University Press.
  
A pianist noted for his versatility in many genres, Mr. Chapman has performed as guest pianist with Musical Elements and Sequitur in New York, played solo piano and chamber music of Pierre Boulez under the supervision of the composer, and co-commissioned and premiered music by the composer/pianist Roger Kellaway. He remains in demand as a keyboard player in all styles, frequently on synthesizers with national Broadway touring productions. He is also a founding member of Elite Syncopation, a group devoted to the performance of ragtime and early jazz. Mr. Chapman's orchestral arrangements of the music of the Gershwins were featured in Pardon My English: a Portrait of the Gershwins, performed by Orchestra New England with Mr. Chapman as piano soloist/arranger in March of 2007. He is the co-director of the music series, Sundays in the Parlor at Park, and appears frequently at the Hop River Chamber Music Festival where he currently serves as Program Director. Mr. Chapman studied piano with Paul Jacobs, Nadia Boulanger, Virginia-Gene Rittenhouse, and composition with Arnold Franchetti. He has recorded for the CRS and Centaur labels. Originally from East Lyme, he is a 1977 graduate of the Hartt School and lives in Norwich. He is also a proud member of the Mohegan Tribe.