Orion Weiss previously appeared with the North Carolina Symphony as guest soloist for a special event concert on May 21, 2021, performing Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 19 in F Major, K. 459.
Orion Weiss is regarded as a “brilliant pianist” (The New York Times) with “powerful technique and exceptional insight” (The Washington Post) and has performed with dozens of orchestras in North America including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and New York Philharmonic.
Highlights of Weiss’s 2023/24 season include a performance at Carnegie Hall and concerts led by conductor Michael Tilson Thomas with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and National Symphony Orchestra, both featuring programs of Mozart and Brahms. In concerts at the Kennedy Center, as well as at Toronto’s Royal Conservatory of music and Charlottesville, Virginia’s Cabell Hall, Weiss performs alongside violinist Augustin Hadelich. He also mentors and performs with students during a weeklong residency at the Colburn School in Los Angeles.
Recent seasons have seen Weiss in performances for the Lucerne Festival, Denver Friends of Chamber Music, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and the Kennedy Center. Other highlights include a performance of Beethoven’s Triple Concerto with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, a live-stream with the Minnesota Orchestra, the release of his recording of Christopher Rouse’s Seeing, and recordings of Gershwin’s complete works for piano and orchestra with the Buffalo Philharmonic and JoAnn Falletta. Weiss performs regularly with violinists Augustin Hadelich, William Hagen, Benjamin Beilman, and James Ehnes; pianists Michael Brown and Shai Wosner; cellist Julie Albers; and the Ariel, Parker, and Pacifica Quartets.
A native of Ohio, Weiss attended the Cleveland Institute of Music and made his debut with The Cleveland Orchestra performing Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in 1999. His awards have included the Classical Recording Foundation’s Young Artist of the Year, Gilmore Young Artist Award, an Avery Fisher Career Grant, and more. In 2004, he graduated from The Juilliard School, where he studied with Emanuel Ax.
