Robert Weirich
Robert Weirich (born February 6, 1950 in Massillon , Ohio ) is an American pianist and composer.
Weirich initially studied at the Institute of European Studies until 1971. In 1972 he received a Bachelor of Music from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and a Master of Music from the Yale University School of Music in 1976 and a Master of Musical Arts the following year. He graduated from Yale University in 1981 as a Doctor of Musical Arts and received its Distinguished Alumni Award in 1989 . He has performed as a pianist at Alice Tully Hall , the Kennedy Center , the Orchestra Hall in Chicago and at the summer festivals in Tanglewood, Ravinia and Marlboro. From 1990 to 1999 he was artistic director of the Skaneateles Festival in upstate New York and won at this time three Adventurous Programming Awards of ASCAP .
In the 2009-2010 season he gave concerts and taught in China and Argentina, the following season he toured the USA with Bach's Goldberg Variations . He successfully played Igor Stravinsky's Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments and Ludwig van Beethoven’s Third and Fifth Piano Concerto with the Kansas City Chamber Orchestra , Béla Bartók’s Second Piano Concerto, Alban Berg’s Chamber Concerto for piano, violin and thirteen wind instruments, and Ernst von Dohnanyi's Variations on at the Helzberg Hall a nursery rhyme .
As a chamber musician, Weinrich has worked with violinists Hilary Hahn , Arnold Steinhardt and Josef Gingold , cellists Nathaniel Rosen , Colin Carr and Stephen Doane , horn players William Vermeulen and Eric Ruske of the Cassatt String Quartet and the Whitman String Quartet . His composition Steamboat Stomp (for horn and piano) won first prize at the Britten-on-the-Bay Competition , and his song My Brother Dances won second prize at the Diana Barnhart American Song Competition . He has published columns in Clavier Magazine and Clavier Companion, and has twice received the Educational Press Association's Distinguished Achievement Award .
After teaching at the Peabody Conservatory of Music , Northwestern University and the Eastern Music Festival , Weinrich held the Jack Strandberg Missouri Endowed Chair at the Conservatory of the University of Missouri-Kansas City . He received the Trustees' Faculty Fellowship and the NT Veatch Prize for Distinguished Research and Creative Activity (2002), the Muriel McBrien Kaufmann Artistry / Scholarship Award (2003) and the Excellence in Teaching Award (2006). His students include Awadagin Pratt and Stanislav Ioudenitch .
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- Art of the Piano: Robert Weinrich
- Drake University, September 16, 2019: Keys to Excellence series Features Robert Weirich
- Clavier Companion: Robert Weirich
- College Music Symposium: Robert W. Weirich
Individual evidence
- ↑ Weirich, Robert. In: International Who's who in Music and Musicians' Directory. 10th edition, Melrose Press, Cambridge 1985, p. 970.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Weirich, Robert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Weirich, Robert W. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American pianist and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 6, 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Massillon , Ohio |