Orion Weiss
Pianist Orion Weiss has been performing in top U.S. halls, plus venues in Europe and South America, since his late teens. He has recorded for the Bridge and Naxos labels. Weiss has appeared in top concert halls in the U.S. and Europe as a recitalist and concerto soloist. He has a substantial recording catalog and backed violinist Augustin Hadelich on the 2024 album American Road Trip.
Weiss was born in Iowa City, Iowa, on November 8, 1981. When he was three, he began taking lessons at the Preucil School of Music there. As a child, he moved with his family to Lyndhurst, Ohio, near Cleveland, and studied at the Interlochen Arts Camp from 1991 to 1995 and at the Cleveland Institute of Music with Paul Schenly from 1995 to 2000. Weiss moved on to the Juilliard School in New York, studying with Emanuel Ax and earning a bachelor's degree in 2004. The following year, he backed cellist Julie Albers on her self-titled recital album on the Artek label. By that time, his career as a performer was already well underway. Weiss made his debut with the Cleveland Orchestra in 1999, performing Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat major, and the following month, he replaced an ailing André Watts in a performance of Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No. 2 with less than 24 hours' notice.
Weiss was immediately invited back, and he has gone on to perform with many major American orchestras, including the Chicago Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Weiss made his solo recital debut at Alice Tully Hall in New York in 2004, and the following year, he played in Europe for the first time at the Louvre in Paris. In 2012, he appeared at Washington's Kennedy Center. He has toured China with the Pittsburgh Symphony and Israel with the Israel Philharmonic under Itzhak Perlman. An enthusiastic chamber music player, Weiss has appeared under the auspices of the Chamber Music Society Two program at Lincoln Center and other major chamber music venues. He has recorded mostly for the Naxos and Bridge labels, with one highlight being a 2012 Naxos release of Gershwin piano works with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra under conductor JoAnn Falletta. In 2021, Weiss joined The Orchestra Now and conductor Leon Botstein on the Bridge album Piano Protagonists. He released the recitals Arc I and Arc II in 2022. In 2023, he backed hornist David Cooper on an album of horn trios, and in 2024, he returned on the Warner Classics label as an accompanist to violinist Augustin Hadelich on the album American Road Trip. Weiss often travels to Colombia to serve as an instructor at the Red Esquela de Música Festicámara Medellín.
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Discography
31 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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American Road Trip
Augustin Hadelich, Orion Weiss
Chamber Music - Released by Warner Classics on Aug. 23, 2024
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Gershwin: Piano Concerto in F Major, 2nd Rhapsody & I Got Rhythm Variations
Orion Weiss, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta
Classical - Released by Naxos on Feb. 1, 2012
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Concerto in F - Rhapsodie n°2
Orion Weiss, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta
Classical - Released by Naxos on Feb. 1, 2012
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Arc III
Classical - Released by First Hand Records on Feb. 21, 2025
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Rouse: Seeing & Kabir Padavali
Albany Symphony Orchestra, David Alan Miller, Talise Trevigne, Orion Weiss
Classical - Released by Naxos on Sep. 4, 2015
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Rouse: Seeing & Kabir Padavali
Albany Symphony Orchestra, David Alan Miller, Talise Trevigne, Orion Weiss
Classical - Released by Naxos on Sep. 4, 2015
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Beach: Romance for Violin and Piano, Op. 23
Augustin Hadelich, Orion Weiss
Chamber Music - Released by Warner Classics on Jul. 12, 2024
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Arc I
Classical - Released by First Hand Records on Mar. 18, 2022
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Arc I
Classical - Released by First Hand Records on Mar. 18, 2022
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Scarlatti: Complete Keyboard Sonatas, Vol. 15
Classical - Released by Naxos on Oct. 14, 2014
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Scarlatti: Complete Keyboard Sonatas, Vol. 15
Classical - Released by Naxos on Oct. 14, 2014
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Bach - Scriabin - Mozart - Carter
Classical - Released by Yarlung Records on Jun. 28, 2011
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Bach - Scriabin - Mozart - Carter
Classical - Released by Yarlung Records on Jun. 28, 2011
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Kroll: Banjo and Fiddle
Augustin Hadelich, Orion Weiss
Chamber Music - Released by Warner Classics on Jun. 14, 2024
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DEBUSSY: L’Isle joyeuse (Single)
Classical - Released by First Hand Records on Dec. 13, 2024
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Piano Protagonists
The Orchestra Now, Orion Weiss, Leon Botstein
Classical - Released by Bridge Records on Mar. 19, 2021
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Piano Protagonists
The Orchestra Now, Orion Weiss, Leon Botstein
Classical - Released by Bridge Records on Mar. 19, 2021
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Goyescas, Op. 11: III. El fandango de candil
Classical - Released by First Hand Records on Feb. 11, 2022
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Goyescas, Op. 11: III. El fandango de candil
Classical - Released by First Hand Records on Feb. 11, 2022
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SCHUBERT: III. Presto from Fantasie in C major, Op. 15 (Single)
Classical - Released by First Hand Records on Jan. 3, 2025
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BRAHMS: Finale from Piano Sonata No. 3 in F minor, Op. 5 (Single)
Classical - Released by First Hand Records on Jan. 31, 2025
Available in24-Bit/96 kHz Stereo