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 Timothy
Weiss, Music Director
Timothy Weiss has gained critical acclaim for his performances and adventurous programming throughout the United States and abroad. As an active guest conductor, he has conducted recent concerts with the BBC Scottish Symphony in Glasgow, Scotland, ICE (International Contemporary Ensemble) in New York’s Miller Theatre, and in San Francisco’s Hertz Hall as well as concerts with the Toledo Symphony, the Quad City Symphony, San Angelo Symphony, the Detroit Chamber Winds, the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, and with Synergy at the Almeida Opera Festival in London, England. In his fourteen years as music director of the Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble he has brought the group to a level of artistry and virtuosity in performance that rivals the finest new music groups. After a recent concert with the ensemble in Carnegie Hall Anthony Aibel of the New York Concert Review wrote, “under the direction of Timothy Weiss [the performances—impeccable performances—of extremely challenging recent music…Each work on the program had something vital to say, something profound, and [Weiss] was able to communicate the music’s message with vitality and insight, despite its extreme difficulty and somewhat foreign language.” Recent collaborations include Ursula Oppens, Jenny Koh, Marilyn Nonken, Harrison Birtwistle, Joan Tower, Tania Leon, Tan Dun, Kevin Volans, James Dillon, Brian Ferneyhough, Lewis Nielson and John Luther Adams. He conducted the American premiere of Olga Neuwirth’s opera Lost Highway based on the movie by David Lynch. He is Professor of Conducting and chair of the Division of Conducting and Ensembles at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. He holds degrees from the Royal Conservatory of Music in Brussels, from Northwestern University and the University of Michigan. Maestro Weiss was appointed Music Director of the Newark-Granville Symphony Orchestra in July 2007.
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