Orion Weiss, Hawken Graduate and Young Pianist on the Rise, Makes Blossom Festival Debut

GATES MILLS, Ohio, July 8 Hawken-Grad-pianist


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 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.







SOURCE  Hawken School