Thursday, August 13th at 7:00 PM

The internationally-acclaimed novelist and pianist Janice Weber will perform a recital including compositions by Erwin Schulhoff, Ignace Paderewski, Dana Suesse, Ernst Bloch, and Strauss-Giesen. A summa cum laude graduate of the Eastman School of Music, Miss Weber has performed at the White House, Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall, National Gallery of Art, and Boston's Symphony Hall. She has appeared with the Boston Pops, Chautauqua Symphony, New Jersey Symphony, Hilton Head Orchestra, Sarajevo Philharmonic, and Syracuse Symphony in concertos of Hanson, Sowerby, Stenhammar, Bernstein, and Leroy Anderson as well as the standard repertoire. She has performed at the Bard, Newport, La Gesse, Husum, and Monadnock summer festivals and has twice toured China under the auspices of the American Liszt Society. Miss Weber is a master of the classics, especially famous for her interpretations of Liszt, including a world recording premiere of Liszt's 1838 Transcendental Etudes. Time Magazine noted, "Liszt later simplified these pieces into the still ferociously difficult Transcendental Etudes (1852 version) for fear that no one else could play them. There may now be several fire-eating piano virtuosos who can execute the original notes, but few can liberate the prophetic music they contain as masterfully as Janice Weber does here." Miss Weber recorded Liszt's last Hungarian Rhapsody, one of only two living pianists to be included in a compendium of historic performances by nineteen legendary artists. This disc subsequently won the International Liszt Prize. Miss Weber is equally appreciated for her championing of new music, including her 2002 Naxos recording of Leo Ornstein's radical piano works, which received significant acclaim in both the American and European press. Her recordings also include Rachmaninoff's complete transcriptions; with the Lydian Quartet, Leo Ornstein's vast Piano Quintet; flute and piano works of Sigfrid Karg-Elert; and waltz transcriptions of Godowsky, Rosenthal, and Friedman.