Assaff Weisman

BM: The Juilliard School

MM: The Juilliard School Pianist

 

Assaff Weisman has earned an international reputation for performances at leading venues across Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas, including London’s Wigmore Hall, the Rudolfinum in Prague, Beethovenhalle in Bonn, Philips Hall in The Hague, and Lincoln Center in New York.

 

A first prize winner of the Iowa International Piano Competition, he has appeared as soloist with the Orchestre Métropolitain (Montreal), Sioux City Symphony, the American Chamber Orchestra, the Connecticut Valley Chamber Orchestra and the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional of Peru. An avid and sought-after chamber musician, Mr. Weisman has collaborated with Tabea Zimmermann, Isidore Cohen, Peter Wiley, Michael Tree, and Antje Weithaas among others, and has taken part in the Aspen Music Festival, Campos do Jordão (Brazil), Lima Chamber Music Festival (Peru), The Music Festival of the Hamptons, and Verbier (Switzerland). He is a founding member, and the Executive Director of the award-winning Israeli Chamber Project, with which he has toured since 2008.

 

Mr. Weisman is a graduate of The Juilliard School, where he received both his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees as a student of Herbert Stessin, and where he is a member of the Extension Division piano faculty. Prior to his studies in New York, he studied with Professor Victor Derevianko in Israel where he was a winner of the America-Israel Cultural Foundation Scholarships.

 

Mr. Weisman is a Yamaha Artist.