Alex Weiser is a composer of patient and thought provoking, yet visceral and dramatic chamber, orchestral,
and vocal music. Alex’s music has a diverse variety of influences and freely draws from everything from the history
of concert music, to the popular music of today. Often utilizing a colorful tonal language and repetition, his music's discourse
is at once rich and abstract, and yet always lucid, accessible and very grounded.
He has received commissions
and performances by ensembles such as Dark in the Song, the JACK quartet, Argento New Music Project, the Sinopia Quartet,
Fifth House Ensemble, Metapraxis Ensemble, and New Triad. He has been a resident at the Millay Colony and his music has been
performed around the world at music festivals including the Norfolk New Music Workshop, June in Buffalo, the European American
Musical Alliance, and highSCORE.
Alex’s
music has recently been awarded by the Lyrica Chamber Music Society, Iowa State University’s Carillon Festival, the
University of Central Missouri, and the Mid Atlantic Foundation for the Arts. Upcoming Projects include a major work for Cadillac
Moon Ensemble’s upcoming album and works for the New York Mandolin Orchestra and the Deviant Septet.
Born
in New York City, Alex began seriously studying music while attending Stuyvesant High School writing pieces for the symphonic
orchestra there, while studying theory and conducting with Joseph Tamosaitis, and composition with Paul Alan Levi. Alex
then continued his studies at Yale University where he worked with teachers including Michael Klingbeil, Kathryn Alexander,
Martin Bresnick, David Lang, Ingram Marshall, and Chris Theofanidis.
To
contact for scores, or to inquire about commissions or new projects please send emails to WeiserEarMusic@gmail.com.
