About Jonathan Weiss
Jonathan Weiss is a composer, pianist, and teacher based in New Haven, CT. When he was seven, his mom gave him a Casio piano keyboard for Christmas, and he couldn’t stop teaching himself tunes by ear and creating ideas of his own. Since then, his passion for musical discovery has carried him through many adventures.
In 2020, Weiss won an ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Award. His compositions have been performed at venues including The Green Room 42, the Atlantic Music Festival, Boston Conservatory at Berklee, and a masterclass with the violinist Hilary Hahn.
Weiss graduated with a B.A. in Music, summa cum laude, from Yale College, where he studied piano and composition under Kathryn Alexander, Nathan Roberts, Konrad Kaczmarek, Howard Frazin, and Jeanine Tesori. He has worked closely with musicians including Jennifer Beattie, Krista River, Jacqueline Kaskel, Sophie Dvorak, Phoebe Liu, Anna Zhong, Epongue Ekille, Jacob Miller, David Leach and Julia Connor, and Sharon Ahn.
