Janice Weber

Miss Weber is a member of the piano faculty at the Boston Conservatory and performs frequently on its chamber music series. She is a contributor to the Musical Times in London, Clavier, and other music publications.

She has been an adjudicator for the National Endowment for the Arts. She has also served on juries for the Gilmore Foundation, the American Piano Association, the Russian-American Music Foundation, and the Aaron Richmond Competition at Boston University.

Her eclectic recordings include Rachmaninoff’s complete transcriptions (IMP); with the Lydian Quartet, Leo Ornstein's vast Piano Quintet (New World Records); flute and piano works of Sigfrid Karg-Elert; and waltz transcriptions of Godowsky, Rosenthal, and Friedman (IMP). For VAI, Miss Weber recorded Liszt's last Hungarian Rhapsody, one of only two living pianists to be included in a compendium of historic performances by nineteen legendary artists. This recording subsequently won the International Liszt Prize. Miss Weber also recorded the notoriously difficult 1838 version of Liszt's Transcendental Etudes. Time magazine wrote, "Liszt later simplified these pieces into the still ferociously difficult Transcendental Etudes (1852 version) for fear that no one else could play them. There may now be several fire-eating piano virtuosos who can execute the original notes, but few can liberate the prophetic music they contain as masterfully as Janice Weber does here."

For Naxos, Miss Weber has appeared with Michael Lewis on a CD of the music of Charles Griffes (8.559046), and her latest recording is a collection of the works of Leo Ornstein (8.559104).

Visit Janice Weber's website at www.janiceweber.com

June 2002