Orion Weiss Piano
sponsor: Ann Janes-Waller and Fletch Waller
Present
SCMS Debut: 1999 Summer Festival
Pianist Orion Weiss has performed with the major orchestras of Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Cleveland and Pittsburgh, and others around the world. The past season saw performances at the Lucerne Festival, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and Minnesota Orchestra. Named the Classical Recording Foundation’s Young Artist of the Year in 2010, Weiss made his debut with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood the following year. In recent seasons, he has performed with the San Francisco Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, National Arts Centre Orchestra, and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. As a recitalist and chamber musician, Weiss has appeared across the U.S. at venues and festivals including Lincoln Center, the Ravinia Festival, Sheldon Concert Hall, La Jolla Music Society SummerFest, Chamber Music Northwest, the Bard Music Festival, the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival, the Kennedy Center, and Spivey Hall. He is the recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant and is a graduate of The Juilliard School, where he studied with Emanuel Ax. In March 2022, First Hand Records released the first album of Weiss’s Arc Trilogy – Arc I: Granados, Janáček, Scriabin – a recording exploring the omens and tension of the period preceding World War I. Gramophone Magazine praised the album as “expansive, colourful, and texturally varied.” Arc II, featuring the music of Ravel, Brahms, and Shostakovich, was released in November 2022.