Michael H. Weinstein

Michael H. Weinstein (born June 26, 1960 in Lausanne ) is an American composer, horn player and music teacher.

Weinstein studied at the Conservatory of the State University of New York at Purchase , at the New England Conservatory of Music and at Brandeis University , His main teachers were Marty Boykan , Malcolm Peyton , Harold Shapero and Yehudi Wyner (composition), Robert Fertita , Steve Lubin , Allen Anderson , Allen Keiler and Robert Cogan (music theory) and Harry Berv , Daniel Katzen and William Purvis (horn).

In 1985 he was one of the founders of Capital Brass , a wind quintet that is particularly dedicated to the music of contemporary composers from New England and, among other things, played the world premiere of John Habison's Magnum Mysterium in 1997 . He is also horn player with the Alcyon Chamber Ensemble and the North Winds Woodwind Quintet . From 1989 to 2000 he was second horn player in the Cape Symphony Orchestra , from 1994 also third horn player in the Nashua Symphony Orchestra and from 2001 first horn player in the Massachusetts Symphony Orchestra . He has also worked freelance with the Boston Classical Orchestra , the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra , the Civic Symphony of Boston , the Pro Arte Orchestra of Cambridge , Back Bay Chorale , Emmanuel Music, and Masterworks Chorale .

From 1991–92 he played for an academic year in Berlin in the Boris Blacher Ensemble for New Music and in the Ars Nova Ensemble Berlin directed by Peter Schwarz . In the 1990s he performed several times at the Darmstadt Summer Courses and gave master classes with the trombonists Barrie Webb and Michel Svoboda and the trumpeter Markus Stockhausen . Since 2001 he has headed the music department at the Cambridge School of Weston . There he conducts the choir and the chamber orchestra, directs the contemporary ensemble and gives courses in music history, theory and composition. As an assistant professor of composition, he teaches harmony, counterpoint and computer music at Berklee College of Music . He also teaches music theory at the New England Conservatory and was visiting professor of music theory at Brandeis University from 2010-11 .

Weinstein composed more than 50 works, including pieces for orchestra, for wood and brass ensembles and other chamber music ensembles, songs, choral works and works for solo instruments. His compositions have been performed by various ensembles in the USA, Paris, Berlin and Moscow and are published by Boosey & Hawkes and Micha Music .

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