Alex Weiser is a composer of patient and thought
provoking, yet visceral and dramatic chamber, orchestral, and vocal music. Alex recently graduated from Yale University where
his teachers included Michael Klingbeil, Kathryn Alexander, Martin Bresnick, David Lang, Ingram Marshall, and Chris Theofanidis.
Alex's music has been commissioned and premiered by groups such as the JACK quartet, Dark in the Song, Argento New Music Project,
Sinopia Quartet, Fifth House Ensemble, Metapraxis Ensemble, and New Triad. At Yale Alex's works were commissioned and performed
by many of the school's premier ensembles including the Jonathan Edwards College Philharmonic, Berkeley College Orchestra,
Resonance Chamber Ensemble, Opera Theater Yale College, Yale Percussion Group. Alex was also the president of Yale's undergraduate
composer's organization "IGIGI" which hosts numerous concerts of new music each year.
Alex's music has been performed around the world at summer programs and festivals where he
has studied with composers such as Martin Bresnick at Norfolk, David Felder and Bernard Rands at June in Buffalo, Phillip
Lasser and Michel Merlet at EAMA, and Chris Theofanidis, Giovanni Albini, and Amy Beth Kirsten at highSCORE.
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’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 tonal language and repetition, his music's discourse is at once complex and abstract, and yet always
lucid, accessible and very grounded.
To contact
for scores, or to inquire about commissions or new projects please send emails to WeiserEarMusic@gmail.com
