Dr. Lisa Weiss - Piano

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Pianist Lisa Weiss, a native of Quincy, MA, began playing at age three and made her debut with the Boston Pops at age seven, performing Haydn’s concerto in D under the direction of Arthur Fiedler. She is a Professor of Music Emeritus at Goucher College where she taught private piano, directed the Chamber Music program and co-directed the Musical Theater and Opera program. In 2013 she was awarded the Todd Professorship, a funded position given one faculty member every five years to support their personal creative projects and pursuits.

Lisa holds a B.A. from Harvard University, an M.M. from The Yale School of Music, and a D.M.A. from The Peabody Conservatory, where she studied with Leon Fleisher. Her other principal teachers are Leo Litwin, Leon Kirchner, Claude Frank and Richard Goode. She also holds an M.F.A. in creative writing from Lesley University and has published in the fiction and non-fiction genres.

Of her New York debut at Merkin Hall, New York Times critic Wil Crutchfield called her “a musician worthy of attention and able to hold it.” For that recital, she performed Bach’s third Partita, the Liszt Sonata and the Copland Sonata. Ms. Weiss concertizes frequently as a soloist, chamber musician, and vocal accompanist. Recent performances include concerts at An Die Musik and Creative Alliance in Baltimore and at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall in New York City.

An advocate of new music, Ms. Weiss’ CD, “Millenium Crossings,” consists of contemporary works for piano solo by contemporary Italian composers. At Yale, she was a member of the Yale Contemporary Ensemble. She premiered a work for piano and computer composed for her by Baltimore composer Samuel Burt at Baltimore’s Artscape.

Lisa lives in Lutherville, MD with her husband, artist and MICA professor Howie Lee Weiss.