This event is free to the community!
Join us at the Steamboat Art Museum for a performance from Yael Weiss as a part of our 2025 Intersections: Music at the Museum series presented by Strings Music Festival and the Steamboat Art Museum. Doors open at 5:30pm, 6:00pm music, and a Q&A with the artists at 6:45pm. These free events are open to music lovers of all ages!
Award-winning Israeli-American pianist Yael Weiss has been hailed for visionary interpretations of surpassing depth, immediacy, and communicative power. She has performed at distinguished venues worldwide including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, London’s Wigmore Hall, Moscow’s Bolshoi Hall, Seoul’s Arts Center, and Tokyo’s Gotanda Center. This spring, Yael will embark on her third solo tour of Japan. Following a recent recital, the Washington Post portrayed her as “a pianist who delves deeply and tellingly into that cloudy area where fantasy morphs into improvisation, inventiveness being common to both.”
Yael Weiss is the curator of the groundbreaking commissioning and performing project 32 Bright Clouds: Beethoven Conversations Around the World, bringing together new piano works from countries of conflict, all unified by Beethoven’s “Call for Inward and Outward Peace”. An advocate for the power of music in the service of peace, she has been featured on NPR’s ‘All Things Considered’ and presented a twelve-hour live marathon online, including performances and interviews with composers from five continents.
Her discography includes solo, concerto, and chamber music works by over a dozen composers, recorded for the Koch International, Toccata Classics, and Bridge Records labels. This past season Bridge Records released The Complete Beethoven Piano Trios 3-CD set by her trio, the Weiss-Kaplan-Stump Trio. The recordings received unanimously enthusiastic critical acclaim in the US and international press, including Gramophone Magazine’s comparison of Yael’s performance to Beethoven himself “…as if the composer were at the keyboard”.
Yael has won numerous honors, including the Naumburg, Kosciuszko Foundation, Winter, and Presser prizes. She has presented master classes at top institutions worldwide and served on the faculties of Indiana University, the University of California at Santa Barbara, and the Heifetz Institute. Her own teachers included Richard Goode and Leon Fleisher.