Janice Weber is a summa cum laude graduate of the Eastman School of Music. Following graduation, she was twice a fellowship student at Tanglewood. She has appeared with the American Composers Orchestra, Boston Pops, Chautauqua Symphony, Hilton Head Symphony, New Hampshire Symphony, Sarajevo Philharmonic, Syracuse Symphony, and the Shenzhen Philharmonic. Solo performances have been at the White House, Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall, Weill Hall, National Gallery of Art, Boston’s Symphony Hall, and the 92nd Street Y.
She has performed at summer festivals in Newport, Bard, and Husum and has toured Yugoslavia, Turkey, and the Baltic States under the auspices of the US Information Service. She has concertized and given master classes in Shenzhen, Kunming, Chengdu, Shenyang, Xian, Beijing, and Gulong Yu, China.
Her eclectic recordings include the complete transcriptions of Rachmaninoff (IMP); with the Lydian Quartet, Leo Ornstein’s vast Piano Quintet (New World Records); waltz transcriptions of Godowsky, Rosenthal, and Friedman (IMP); the world premiere recording of Liszt’s Transcendental Etudes in the notorious 1838 version (IMP); solo piano music of Leo Ornstein (Naxos), and Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time (Ongaku Records). Seascapes, her most recent recording, is a collection of virtuoso pieces depicting the ocean.
An Associate Professor (retired) of the Boston Conservatory piano faculty, Miss Weber has also taught at MIT and New England Conservatory. She is currently Artistic Director of South Coast Chamber Players, an ensemble based in New Bedford, Massachusetts. She is the author of eight novels.