Composer Alex Weiser Concert Curator 145 4th Ave Apt 10F | New York, NY 10003 917.902.4619 |[email protected] Event Producer www.AlexWeiser.com Music Educator

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE • YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, Director of Public Programs 2016-Present • Kettle Corn New Music, Founder and Co-Artistic Director 2012-Present • Third Street Music School Settlement, Music Theory and Composition Faculty 2014-2019 (Substitute 2012-Present) • Music at the Anthology, Inc. (MATA), Director of Operations and Development 2011-2016 • New York Philharmonic, Teaching Artist Associate 2014-2015 • NYU Teaching Assistant, Assistant to for composition seminar and composers forum; head tutor for Music Theory, Musicianship, and Music History 2012-2014

EDUCATION • New York University, MA Spring 2014 - Music Composition – GPA: 4.0 • , BA class of 2011 - Music (Intensive) Graduated with Honors – GPA: 3.69 • Composition Studies with Michael Gordon, Michael Klingbeil, Kathryn Alexander, Paul Alan Levi • Master Classes and Lessons with Julia Wolfe, Martin Bresnick, Chris Theofanidis, Ingram Marshall, David Felder, Bernard Rands, Michel Merlet, Phillip Lasser, Amy Beth Kirsten, Mario Garuti • Stuyvesant High School, class of 2007

COMMISSIONS, AWARDS, & RESIDENCIES PREMIERES, COMMISSIONS, & • 2020 ASCAP Foundation Charles Kingsford Fund Commission Recipient PERFORMANCES • 2020 and all the days were purple Named Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Music Eliza Bagg, Lee Dionne, New Morse Code, Lisa Moore, Vicky • 2018-2019 Roulette Jerome Foundation Artist Residency Recipient Chow, Ashley Bathgate, Todd Reynolds, Kate Maroney, Cantata • 2019 Exploring the Metropolis Con Edison Composer-in-Residence Profana, Julian Schwarz, Marika Bournaki, Kathleen Supove, • 2018 Asylum Arts International Jewish Artist Retreat Participant Momenta Quartet, Sandbox Percussion, Mellissa Hughes, Matt • 2018-2019 LABA Fellow at the 14th Street Y Evans, Karl Larson, TILT Brass, JACK Quartet, Argento New • 2018 ASCAP Morton Gould Award Music Project, Fifth House Ensemble, Dark in the Song, • 2017-2019 American Opera Projects Composers and the Voice, Fellow Guidonian Hand, Cadillac Moon Ensemble, New Amsterdam • 2016-2017 Roulette Emerging Artist Commission Recipient Singers, Hausmann Quartet, Exceptet, Bearthoven • 2016 Avaloch Farm Music Institute Residency with Ashley Bathgate • 2015 Avaloch Farm Music Institute Residency with HOCKET Piano Duo • 2015 Atlantic Center for the Arts Residency 158 with Stewart Wallace • 2013 Atlantic Center for the Arts Residency 151 with Martin Bresnick • 2013 Composer Assistance Program Grant from New Music USA • 2013 Wildacres Retreat Residency Program • 2013 Kimmel Harding Nelson Artist Colony Residency • 2012-2013 Composer-in-Residence for the Guidonian Hand Trombone Quartet • 2012 Millay Colony Resident with Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Creative Fellowship for NY State • 2011 Lyrica Chamber Music Hausman String Quartet Award • 2011 Iowa State University Carillon Competition Award

MUSIC FESTIVALS • Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival 2018 Guest Composer • Bang on a Can Summer Festival 2014 • Imani Winds Chamber Music Festival 2013 • HighSCORE Music Festival July 2011 • Norfolk Chamber Music Festival New Music Workshop 2010 • June In Buffalo 2009 • European American Musical Alliance (EAMA) 2009 Alex Weiser Selected Works 145 4th Ave Apt 10F | New York, NY 10003 917.902.4619 |[email protected] www.AlexWeiser.com

Vocal Works

Opera Songs

State of the Jews (libretto by Ben Kaplan) 80’ (2019) From An Ardent Lover (text by Alexander Harkavy) 3’ (2019) Come Home (text after Shmerke Kaczerginski) 5’ (2018) Extended Vocal Works Self-portrait (text by Edward Hirsch) 3’30’’ (2018) Thursday (text by William Carlos Williams) 2’30’’ (2018) A Certain Slant of Light (text by Emily Dickinson) 4’ (2011) in a dark blue night for Singer and Piano 9’ (2020) The Future is Space (text by Pablo Neruda) 2’ (2011) with gentle fingers for Singer and Percussion Quartet 10’ (2018) Ebb (text by Edna St. Vincent Millay) 2’30’' (2008) and all the days were purple for Singer and Chamber Ensemble 28’ (2017) Three Epitaphs for Singer and Chamber Orchestra 13’ (2016) Dreaming of Love for Singer, Trumpet or Violin, and Piano 8’ (2014/2015) Choral Marks (text by Laura Marris) for Singer and Piano 14’ (2013) Travelers (text by Laura Marris) for SATB, 4’ (2011)

Orchestral Works after shir hashirim for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, Piano, and String Quintet 6’ (2017) Ascension for 2 Flutes, 2 Clarinets, 2 Percussion, Piano, Guitar, and String Quartet 7’ (2014) Somewhere for Orchestra 10’ (2013) Winter Prayer for Concert Band 6’ (2011) Inimmediate Gratification for Orchestra 4’30’’ (2009) only a dream for Orchestra 5’ (2009) Chamber Works

Waltz Apparition for Clarinet in Bb, Violin, and Piano 5’ (2018) Willow’s Song and Shimmer for Eight Spatially Arrayed Cellos 1’30’’ and 12’30’’ (2016) disarm for Clarinet in Bb, Bassoon, Trumpet, Trombone, Percussion, Violin, and Bass 10’ (2015) study search seek for Clarinet and String Quartet 6’ (2015) Anatomy of a Drum Roll, Resonance and Rhythm for Percussion Quartet 16’ (2014) Flex for Piano Trio 4’ (2014) Bearthoven Roar for Piano, Percussion, and Bass 4’ (2014) Octet for Flute (+piccolo), Clarinet in Bb, Percussion, Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello, Bass 8’ (2013) Wind for Woodwind Quintet 8’ (2013) Music for 4 Trombones 26’ (2013) Quake for String Quartet 7’ (2013) Subway Memories for Flute, Percussion, Violin, and Cello 12’ (2012) Music for 5 Bassoons 15’ (2012) Two by Two for Two Drum Sets and Four Hand Piano 6’ (2011) Saxifrage for String Quartet 7’ (2011) adrift for Violin, Clarinet in Bb, and Trombone (or Violin and Piano) 6’ (2010) Finding and Flying for Clarinet in Bb (+Bass Clarinet), Trombone, Percussion, Piano, Violin, and Bass Guitar 8' (2010) Lament for Flute, Horn, Bass (or Cello), and Piano 7’ (2009) dust for Flute, Clarinet in Bb, Violin, and Cello 6’30’’ (2009)

Solo and Duo Works Music for Dance

(Stuck in the) House Music for Piano four hands 1’ (2020) Invisible Beauty for Piano Trio and Voice 20’ (in progress) The Old Question for Violin and Piano 5’ (2020) Silent for the Rain for Cello and Piano 10’ (2018) Lullaby for Solo Violin 4’ (2016) fade for Solo Piano 7’ (2016) water hollows stone for Piano four hands 18’ (2015) Rumbling Waves for Piano and Percussion 9’ (2014) Memories Suite for Solo Piano 12’ (2010/2011) thaw for Solo Piano 11’ (2009) piano piece for Solo Piano 6’30’’ (2009) …mallet merengue for Vibraphone and Marimba 6’30’’ (2008) Upcoming Performances Include:

11.22.20 Performance of and all the days were purple on Present Music’s Thanksgiving: Wherein Lies the Good, Digital Performance Date TBD: ASCAP Foundation Charles Kingsford Fund Commission, Digital Premiere April 2021: New Ballet in collaboration with Jacqulyn Buglisi and Buglisi Dance October 2021: and all the days were purple orchestral version premiere Past Performances Include: 10.25.20 Wind performed by West Texas Winds on “Something Old, Something New” Midland, Texas 10.17.20 Julian Schwarz and Marika Bournaki perform Silent for the Rain at Music for a Great Space, Digital Performance 10.6.20 Talk at Federation for Jewish Philanthropy of Upper Fairfield County, ZOOM Event 10.4.20 Dreaming of Love performed at Ensemble Uncaged: Palimpsest - Traces Remain, Longy School, Digital Performance 8.5.20 Talk at Federation for Jewish Philanthropy of Upper Fairfield County, ZOOM Event [postponed] 7.30.20 Digital premiere of (Stuck in the) House Music for four-hand-piano by HOCKET, Internet 7.16.20 Talk at The Jewish Historical Society of Fairfield County, ZOOM Event 7.5.20 Interview on Bund Podcast, Episode 7: Alex Weiser, YouTube 6.30.20 Digital premiere of The Old Question for Violin and Piano performed by Cantata Profana at YIVO, Facebook & YouTube 6.14.20 Performance of and all the days were purple on the Bang on a Can Marathon, Internet 5.28.20 Excerpts from State of the Jews screened and discussed as a part of 14th Street Y's Virtual Tikun 4.9.20 Poetry sung by Lorin Sklamberg at Russ & Daughters 2nd Seder, ZOOM Event 2.20.20 Julian Schwarz and Marika Bournaki perform Silent for the Rain at NYU Black Box Theater, NYC

2019 12.5-8.19 State of the Jews opera preview performances at the 14th Street Y, 344 E 14th St, NYC 11.2.19 Julian Schwarz and Marika Bournaki perform Silent for the Rain on Charles Ives Music Festival’s “Variation” Concert, Ridgefield, CT 7:30pm 10.18.19 Ashley Bathgate performs Willow’s Song and Shimmer at Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan 8:30pm 6.18.19 Alex Weiser Portrait Concert including a workshop performance of Act I of State of the Jews at Roulette, Brooklyn, NYC, 8pm 6.4.19 Elizabeth Shammash and Yehudi Wyner perform with gentle fingers as a part of a Hebrew Liederabend at YIVO, NYC, 7:00pm 5.22.19 Julia Yang and Lee Dionne perform Silent for the Rain on the Sessions Series, NYC, 7:30pm 5.2.19 Con Edison Exploring the Metropolis Composer-in-residence performance at the Turtle Bay Music School, 7pm 4.9.19 and all the days were purple album launch with Cantaloupe Music: show & party, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research NYC, 7pm 3.31.19 Julian Schwarz and Marika Bournaki perform Silent for the Rain on the Charles Ives Concert Series, Danbury CT, 3:00pm 2.3.19 Icarus Quartet performs Two by Two on St. John's Church’s Music in the Valley Series 2.2.19 LABA Alive Workshop performance of an excerpt of State of the Jews, 14th Street Y, NYC, 7:30pm 1.3+4+5.19 Premiere of Silent for the Rain for Cello and Piano by Julian Schwarz and Marika Bournaki on Barge Music Winter Festival

2018 11.3.18 Premiere of with gentle fingers, Eliza Bagg and Sandbox Percussion, Kettle Corn New Music, DiMenna Center 2:30pm 9.28+29.18 Excerpt of State of the Jews at American Opera Projects, Composers and the Voice: Six Scenes Concert 8.21.18 Waltz Apparition performed at Lake Champlain Music Festival Vermont 8.5.18 Anatomy of a Drum Roll performed by Sandbox Percussion at Groupmuse concert, Brooklyn NY 6:15pm 8.4.18 Anatomy of a Drum Roll performed at the NYU Sandbox Percussion Showcase, National Sawdust 1:30pm 7.29.18 Anatomy of a Drum Roll performed by Sandbox Percussion at NYU Sandbox Percussion Seminar 8pm 5.19+20.18 American Opera Projects, Composers and the Voice: "First Glimpse Concert of Songs" 7:30pm 5.19.18 Anatomy of a Drum Roll performed by Sandbox Percussion on Governors Island, NYC 1pm and 3pm [rained out] 5.13.18 Excerpts from and all the days were purple at Bang a Can Marathon at Skirball Center, NYC 12pm-10pm 2.23.18 Premiere of Come Home by Alexandra Schleuderer and Jessica Osbourne at Third Street's LiveSOUNDS series, NYC 7pm 2.9.18 Ashley Bathgate performs Willow’s Song and Shimmer at Museum of Making Music, Carlsbad, CA, 7pm 2.8.18 Ashley Bathgate performs Willow’s Song and Shimmer at Lyric Hyperion Theatre, Los Angeles, CA, 8pm 2.6.18 Ashley Bathgate performs Willow’s Song and Shimmer at Peace United Church, Santa Cruz, CA, 7:30pm 2.5.18 Ashley Bathgate performs Willow’s Song and Shimmer at St. Aidan's Episcopal Church, San Francisco, CA, 8pm 2.3.18 Ashley Bathgate performs Willow’s Song and Shimmer at Saraha Nyingma Buddhist Institute, Eugene, OR, 7:30pm 2.2.18 Ashley Bathgate performs Willow’s Song and Shimmer at The Old Church, Portland, OR, 7:30pm 2.1.18 Ashley Bathgate performs Willow’s Song and Shimmer at Ranier Arts Center, Seattle, WA, 8pm

2017 11.30.17 Premiere of after shir hashirim by Cantata Profana at YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, NYC 7pm 10.15.17 Ashley Bathgate performs Shimmer at People Inside Electronics, Pasadena California, 8pm 9.17.17 Lindsay Garritson piano duo performs Water Hollows Stone, Miami, Florida 8.2.17 Selection of Yiddish Language Songs performed by Eliza Bagg and Marika Bournaki at YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, NYC, 6pm 7.20.17 Willow’s Song and Shimmer for Cello Octet performed by Ashley Bathgate at MASS MoCA, North Adams Mass. 4:30pm 6.25.17 Premiere of Willow’s Song and Shimmer for Cello Octet by Ashley Bathgate on Kettle Corn New Music at National Sawdust, 7pm 6.8.17 Kathleen Supove premieres fade for solo piano at DiMenna Center for Classical Music 5.29.17 and all the days were purple premiere & portrait concert with Eliza Bagg, New Morse Code, andPlay, and Lee Dionne, Roulette, NYC, 8pm 4.13.17 A Certain Slant of Light performed on Dawn Upshaw & Bard Conservatory program at The Morgan Library, NYC 7:30pm

2016 12.21.16 Premiere of Lullaby for solo violin by Yuval Waldman at YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, NYC 12.04.16 Verdant Vibes performs Rumbling Waves at Aurora, Providence RI 11.02.16 Dreaming of Love performed Julie Hill, Brigid Coleridge, and Lee Dionne at YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, NYC 10.27.16 water hollows stone performed at Erika Dohi piano recital at Tenri Cultural Institute, 8:30pm 7.17.16 disarm featured on the C’MON Festival in Edmonton, Alberta Canada: Studio 96 at 3pm 7.16.16 adrift featured on the C’MON Festival in Edmonton, Alberta Canada: Studio 96 at 8pm 7.9.16 Students at Dark in the Song’s 2016 NewBassoon Workshop at Eastman School of Music perform Music for 5 Bassoons 5.27+28.16 Kate Maroney and Cantata Profana premiere Three Epitaphs, Kettle Corn New Music, DiMenna Center, NYC 4.24.16 Dreaming of Love performed by Justine Aronson, Sarah Goldfeather, and Paul Kerekes at the String Theories Festival of String Orchestra of Brooklyn at Roulette, 8pm 3.23.16 HOCKET performs water hollows stone at Cal State Long Beach 2.19.16 Dreaming of Love performed by Corrine Byrne and Andy Kozar, at Staller Center for the Arts, 4pm 1.29.16 Dreaming of Love performed by Corrine Byrne and Andy Kozar, at Longy School of Music, 8pm 1.24.16 HOCKET performs water hollows stone at San Diego Public Library Central Library, 2pm 1.21.16 Dreaming of Love song cycle performed by Corrine Byrne and Andy Kozar at Spectrum, NYC 9pm

2015 12.6.15 Exceptet premieres disarm, The Firehouse Space 8pm 12.5.15 Fresh Squeezed Opera 2015 Showcase features Marks 11.21.15 HOCKET performs water hollows stone at Brand Library and Arts Center in Glendale, CA 11.8.15 Wind performed by Washington Square Winds at Spectrum, NYC 3pm 11.6.15 HOCKET performs water hollows stone at Center for New Music in San Francisco 10.25.15 Wind performed by Washington Square Winds at Huntington Library, Long Island 2pm 10.22.15 HOCKET performs water hollows stone at LA City College 9.23.15 HOCKET performs water hollows stone at LA Valley College 9.18.15 Tin-Shi Tam performs For Whom The Bell Tolls on the opening concert of the ISU Carillon Festival 9.16.15 HOCKET performs water hollows stone at Cal State Long Beach 9.12.15 Sandbox Percussion performs Anatomy of a Drum Roll, Resonance and Rhythm in Rhode Island 8.28.15 HOCKET Piano Duo premieres water hollows stone at Carlsbad New Music Festival 5.7.15 The Door performed by Justine Aronson on Contemporary Elements, Marble Collegiate Church's Music Next Door series. 7:30pm 4.26.15 Dreaming of Love song cycle performed by Corrine Byrne and Andy Kozar at Firehouse Space NYC, 7:30pm 4.16.15 study search seek for Clarinet and String Quartet on 2015 MATA Festival at The Kitchen 8pm 4.12.15 Wind performed by Washington Square Winds at Greenwich House, NYC 3pm 2.22.15 Wind performed by Washington Square Winds at Spectrum, NYC 3pm 1.11.15 Dreaming of Love premiered by Corrine Byrne, Andy Kozar, and Tor Morten Kjosnes, at Concerts on Main, Chatham NJ, 2pm

2014 11.8.2014 Sandbox Percussion performs Anatomy of a Drum Roll, Resonance and Rhythm at E.M.P Collective in Baltimore, 9:30pm 11.1.2014 Duo performed by Lina Andonovska and Alexina Hawkins at Conduit Arts, Melbourne, Australia, 8:30pm 9.27.2014 Quake performed at the East River Amphitheater in NYC by The New Collaborative 5:30pm 9.22.2014 Marks, arranged for Flute, Piano, and Percussion, performed by 'press,play' at fourtyfivedownstairs in Melbourne, Australia, 8pm 9.13.2014 Anatomy of a Drum Roll, Resonance and Rhythm by Sandbox Percussion, on Kettle Corn New Music at DiMenna Center, NYC 7pm 9.12.2014 Anatomy of a Drum Roll previewed by Sandbox Percussion on the High Line Park, NYC 8.8.2014 Karl Larson performs Piano Piece, Thaw, after J.S. and Memories Suite alongside music by Scott Wollschleger at Scholes Street Studio 8pm 8.1.2014 Octet performed at MASS MoCA as a part of Bang on a Can Summer Festival 7.31.2014 Arrangement of Night Walk for Violin, Piano, and Percussion premiered at Bang on a Can Summer Festival, MASS MoCA 7.28.2014 Ascension premiered at Bang on a Can Summer Festival, MASS MoCA 6.14.2014 Flex premiered by Typical Music (Todd Reynolds, Ashley Bathgate, Vicky Chow), Kettle Corn New Music at DiMenna Center, NYC 5.4.2014 Portrait concert at The Firehouse Space Brooklyn, NY with Matt Evans, Karl Larson, Charlotte Mundy, Pat Swoboda, and others. 4.28.2014 Octet premiered by NYU Contemporary Music Ensemble at the Loewe Theater, 35 West Fourth Street, NYC 4.22.2014 Bearthoven Roar premiered by Bearthoven at New Amsterdam performance space, Brooklyn, NY 4.17.2014 Rumbling Waves for Piano and Percussion premiered by Vicky Chow and Matt Evans on the MATA Festival at the Kitchen, NYC

2013 10.10.2013 EDGE Ensemble performs selections from Subway Memories at Bright Box, Shenendoah University 9.19-20.2013 Cadillac Moon Ensemble performs Subway Memories at Greenwich House, NYC 8.4.2013 Imani Winds Chamber Music Festival, premiere of Wind 8.1.2013 Premiere of Marks by Mellissa Hughes and Lisa Moore at Kettle Corn New Music, Spectrum, NYC 6.18.2013 Guidonian Hand premiere Music for 4 Trombones on Kathleen Supové’s Music with a View festival at the Flea Theater, NYC 5.24-25.2013 Guidonian Hand perform Music for 4 Trombones II. at MADArt Creative’s, “Morphing Me” 5.23.2013 New Amsterdam Singers perform Travelers at the St. Ignatius Church, NYC 5.18.2013 Cadillac Moon Ensemble perform Subway Memories in a public concert on the High Line, NYC 5.14.2013 New Amsterdam Singers perform Travelers at the Second Presbyterian Church, NYC 5.13.2013 Alex Weiser is a guest of honor at New Amsterdam Singers annual fundraising GALA, which also features a performance of Travelers at the New York Academy of Medicine Library 4.29.2013 NYU Symphony premiere Somewhere at the Loewe Theater, NYC as the culmination of season composer-in-residence 4.23.2013 JACK Quartet premiered Quake at the Provincetown Playhouse, 133 MacDougal Street NYC 3.28.2013 Guidonian Hand preview performance of Music for 4 Trombones on Vicky Chow’s Contagious Sounds series, Gershwin Hotel, NYC

2012 12.30.2012 ComposersCircle.com feature Saxifrage as their composition of the day 12.2.2012 Cadillac Moon Ensemble perform Subway Memories on the Portland String Quartet’s Lark Society Concert Series in Portland, Maine 11.30.2012 Yale Concert Band perform Winter Prayer, Woolsey Hall, New Haven, CT 11.20.2012 Cadillac Moon Ensemble premiere Subway Memories on Ear Heart Music’s series at Roulette 10.25.2012 NYU Percussion Ensemble perform …mallet merengue in Loewe Theater, NYC 8.19.2012 Guidonian Hand premiere Music for 4 Trombones I. at Caffe Vivaldi 7.17.2012 Charles Semowich performs For Whom the Bell Tolls at Riverside Church, NYC 5.8.2012 Dark in the Song performs Music for 5 Bassoons at an international bassoon festival in Morelia, Mexico 4.27.2012 Yale Glee Club performs Travelers at Yale University’s Hendrie Hall Room 201 4.15.2012 Awake at Night performed at the University of Central Missouri as a winner of their "New Pieces Project" 3.22.2012 Yale Glee Club performs Travelers at Yale’s Beinecke Library 3.3-9.2012 Yale Glee Club Spring Tour, California and Hawaii, performances of Travelers 2.5.2012 Lyrica Chamber Music, Hausmann String Quartet performed Saxifrage 1.8.2012 Vox Novus, Composer’s Voice, Jenny Greene and Matt Frey perform A Certain Slant of Light

2011 12.11.2011 Sinopia Quartet performs Two by Two at Lilypad in Cambridge 11.18.2011 Yale Glee Club premieres Travelers at Woolsey Hall 11.13.2011 Vox Novus, Composer’s Voice, Julie Hill and Alex Weiser perform The Future is Space 10.29.2011 Sinopia Quartet premieres Two by Two at Brooklyn’s IBeam 10.26.2011 IGIGI Song Concert, Whitney Humanity Center, Bonnie Antosh and Gabriel Zucker perform The Future is Space 10.10.2011 Ethan Braun performs Memories Suite at Braun Salon, LA 9.14.2011 Iowa State University Carillon Festival, Arie Abbenes premieres For Whom The Bell Tolls as the festivals winning composition 7.14.2011 HighSCORE Festival, Memories Suite for piano performed by Andrea Mastretta 7.12.2011 HighSCORE Festival, the Indaco String Quartet perform Saxifrage II String Quartet 4.24.2011 IGIGI’s annual new music marathon 4.23.2011 Senior Recital at Yale University 4.5.2011 JACK quartet premieres Saxifrage at Beinecke Library, Yale University 2.5.2011 ACE New Music Ensemble premieres Der Doppel Rocker at Whitney Humanity Center

2010 12.4.2010 IGIGI and Saxifrage Music present Ebb and Piano Piece in the Silliman Common Room at Yale University 11.6.2010 The Jonathan Edwards College Philharmonic Premieres Three Ruminations 11.4.2010 The Yale University Art Gallery concert of new works responding to ideas about water, premiere of adrift 6.25.2010 Finding and Flying premiered as a part of Norfolk Chamber Music Festival New Music Workshop Residency 4.30.2010 The Jonathan Edwards College Philharmonic Premieres Recalibration 4.15-16.2010 Chamber Opera The Waves premieres at Yale University in Nick Chapel 4.11.2010 Yale Percussion Group Premieres Mallet Piece at the Yale University Art Gallery

2009 12.11.2009 Berkeley College Orchestra Premieres Inimmediate Gratification at Yale University Battell Chapel 11.10.2009 Fifth House Ensemble Premieres Lament at the Beinecke Library, Yale 6.1-7.2009 …mallet merengue performed at June in Buffalo 4.29.2009 Lee Dionne performs Piano Piece on IGIGI’s annual new music marathon 3.3.2009 Argento New Music Project premieres dust at the Beinecke Library 2.14.2009 The Jonathan Edwards College Philharmonic premiere only a dream… 2.4.2009 ready to dance premiere at the Yale University Art Gallery 2.3.2009 Jennifer Beattie and Adam Marks premiere Ebb at the Beinecke Library

2008 12.11.2008 Two new songs premiere at IGIGI’s collaboration with the Yale Literary Magazine and Berkeley Poet’s Society 12.10.2008 Solo Trombone work premiered by Ben Bernard at Yale recital 5.10.2008 Works performed on IGIGI’s annual new music marathon 4.12.2008 Paul Alan Levi’s Four Hand Band premieres Three Summer Scenes 4.4.2008 The Yale Glee Club premieres Break of Day 2.14.2008 Ocean Park No. 24 (inspired by a painting by Richard Diebenkorn) premieres at the Yale University Art Gallery in conjunction with a workshop program with Alvin Lucier Alex Weiser 145 4th Ave Apt 10F | New York, NY 10003 917.902.4619 |[email protected] www.AlexWeiser.com

Biography

Broad gestures and rich textures are hallmarks of the “compelling” (The New York Times), “deliciously wistful” (San Francisco Classical Voice), “personal, expressive, and bold,” (I Care If You Listen) music of composer Alex Weiser. Born and raised in New York City, Weiser creates acutely cosmopolitan music combining a deeply felt historical perspective with a vibrant forward-looking creativity. Weiser’s debut album and all the days were purple, was named a 2020 Pulitzer Prize Finalist for Music. Released by Cantaloupe Music in April 2019, the album includes songs in Yiddish and English and has been praised as “ravishing” (The New Yorker), “reverent and magical... devastatingly beautiful,” (American Record Guide), “gorgeous” (Tablet Magazine), “utterly original and exquisitely unsettling... sweeping, bewitching, divinely dissonant... pitch-perfect.” (In Geveb).

Weiser recently completed an opera with librettist Ben Kaplan called State of the Jews. Hailed as “stunning, heavenly, marvelous” by Israeli National Public Radio, the opera is based on the life of Theodor Herzl and juxtaposes a historical narrative focusing on the last year of his life, with the more intimate story of Theodor’s conflicted relationship with his wife, Julie Herzl, and the toll his political views and activities took on their family life. Developed as a part of a two-year fellowship with American Opera Projects, the LABA fellowship of the 14th Street Y, a Roulette residency, and with support from the ConEd Exploring the Metropolis Composer Residency program, the opera received a series of preview performances at the 14th Street Y in December 2019 and awaits a premiere production.

Other recent projects include Shimmer, an extended work for eight spatially arrayed cellos written for Ashley Bathgate which will be released on an album in the coming season; a collection of works inspired by David Vogel’s poem with gentle fingers including a song, a work for singer with a percussion quartet performing inside a piano, and a pair of works for Cello and Piano; Three Epitaphs originally written for singer Kate Maroney and chamber orchestra Cantata Profana; and water hollows stone, a multi-movement four hand piano work written for HOCKET piano duo.

An energetic advocate for contemporary classical music and for the work of his peers, Weiser co-founded and directs Kettle Corn New Music, an “ever-enjoyable” and “engaging” concert series which “creates that ideal listening environment that so many institutions aim for: relaxed, yet allowing for concentration” (New York Times), and was for nearly five years a director of the MATA Festival, “the city’s leading showcase for vital new music by emerging composers” (The New Yorker). Weiser is now the Director of Public Programs at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research where he curates and produces programs that combine a fascination with and curiosity for historical context, with an eye toward influential Jewish contributions to the culture of today and tomorrow.

Other commissions and performances have come from ensembles and musicians including the Soldiers Tale septet, Exceptet, Kathleen Supové, Typical Music (Todd Reynolds, Ashley Bathgate, and Vicky Chow), Lisa Moore, Mellissa Hughes, Sandbox Percussion, JACK Quartet, Guidonian Hand, Momenta Quartet, Argento Ensemble, Cadillac Moon Ensemble, Bearthoven, Fifth House Ensemble, bassoon quintet Dark in the Song, and the New Amsterdam Singers. Weiser has completed residencies at Avaloch Farm Music Institute, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Wildacres, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, and Millay Colony, and his music has been heard at festivals including Bang on a Can, Norfolk, Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival, Carlsbad Music Festival, June in Buffalo, European American Musical Alliance, Imani Winds Chamber Music Festival, and highSCORE. Weiser has received commissions, awards, and support from Roulette, New Music USA, ASCAP, the Lyrica Chamber Music Society, Iowa State University’s Carillon Festival, the University of Central Missouri, and the Mid Atlantic Foundation for the Arts.

Weiser’s musical education began in earnest while attending Stuyvesant High School writing pieces for their symphonic orchestra, studying theory and conducting with Joseph Tamosaitis, and studying composition with Paul Alan Levi. Weiser then continued his studies at Yale University and New York University where teachers and mentors included Michael Gordon, Julia Wolfe, Michael Klingbeil, Kathryn Alexander, Martin Bresnick, , Ingram Marshall, and Christopher Theofanidis.