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A former flute and
chamber music professor for a decade at the Boston University College
for the Arts, Weiss is a highly regarded pedagogue and clinician. His
outstanding students include: Guoliang Han, principal flutist China
National Symphony and Professor of Flute, Beijing Central Conservatory;
Jeanne Carere, principal flutist Atlanta Ballet, Grammy nominated flutist
and composer Valerie Coleman, and Heather Holden of the award winning
Arc Duo. His students have won prestigious positions in professional
orchestras and competitions.
Mr. Weiss was the Director of Chamber Music and Young Artists Orchestra
Program as well as a flute instructor for the Boston University Tanglewood
Institute. Alan was an artist-in-residence at the 2000 Schubert International
Music Festival and Competition (Ovada, Italy) and has performed at the
Santander Music Festival (Spain). In 2003, Mr. Weiss performed solo
alto flute with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project’s premier
of Tod Machover’s Toy Symphony in New York City and in Cambridge,
Massachusetts. In the summer of 2004, Alan performed as soloist and
in masterclasses at the China International Flute Festival in Shenyang.
In 2005 he presented solo performances with the Nashua (NH) Chamber
Orchestra and the Boston Classical Orchestra. He has been happily married
to the talented and beautiful oboist Ann Rosandich since 1986.
Alan Weiss performs
on a custom-crafted 14K gold flute made by the William S. Haynes Company
of Boston as well as vintage silver Louis Lot flutes made in 1871 and
1886.
The fall of 2007, was Alan's debut performance in Tokyo, Japan with
world-renowned flutist Shigenori Kudo.
In recent years Alan has had the privilege of performing in concert with a number of renowned flutist colleagues including: Claudi Arimany, Kathleen Chastain, Michel Debost, Paul Edmund-Davies, Paul Fried, Shigenori Kudo, Horacio Parravicini, Nobutaka Shimizu, and
Juan Jesus Silguero.