GATES MILLS, Ohio, July 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Acclaimed pianist
Orion Weiss, a 2000 graduate of Hawken School, will return home and make
his Blossom Festival debut with the Cleveland Orchestra on July 20 at
Blossom Music Center.
Heralded by the Cincinnati Post as a "new star on the pianistic
horizon," Weiss attended the Cleveland Institute of Music, studying with
Paul Schenly and is a graduate of the Julliard School where he was a
student of renowned pianist Emanuel Ax.
In addition to performing with the Cleveland Institute of Music
Orchestra and Akron Symphony Orchestra, he has also appeared with the San
Francisco, Baltimore, Houston, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Phoenix,
Rochester, Memphis, Annapolis, Louisville and Omaha symphony orchestras
among many others.
Weiss made his Cleveland Orchestra debut while a student at Hawken in
1999, performing Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 1 and will make his Blossom
debut performing Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1. He is a former resident
of Lyndhurst, Ohio.
For more information about Weiss, visit http://www.orionweiss.com
Hawken School is an independent, nonsectarian, coed day school of
approximately 960 students, grades pre-K through 12, located on two
campuses in the eastern suburbs of Cleveland. Founded in 1915, Hawken is
recognized as one of the premier college preparatory schools in the nation
with a diverse student body participating in a challenging program of
academics, arts, and athletics that prepares them to meet the challenges of
tomorrow's world.
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