Ferdinand Weiss


Ferdinand Weiss was a Romanian collaborative pianist and a professor at the Gheorghe Dima Music Academy of Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

Education

He received a degree in piano from the Gheorghe Dima Music Academy of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, where he studied piano with professor Gh. Halmos, harmony with prof. M. Eisikovits, composition with prof. S. Toduta and conducting with prof. A. Ciolan.

Awards

As a pianist Weiss performed in over 1500 recitals all over the world, accompanying well-known soloists, such as the violinists Andrei Agoston, Mihaela Martin, Ștefan Ruha and Ion Voicu, and the singers Alexandru Agache, Liliana Bizineche, Ion Buzea, Elena Cernei, Ileana Cotrubaș, Dan Iordachescu, Marta Kessler, Ionel Pantea, Emilia Petrescu, Ion Piso, Edita Simon and Julia Tözser-Varadi. Ferdinand Weiss also performed with world-famous guests on Romanian stages, such as Ayhan Baran, Lola Bobesco, Ivry Gitlis, Ruggiero Ricci, Henryk Szeryng, and Gioconda de Vito. Together with these remarkable artists, Weiss excelled in a wide-ranging repertoire enriched by a number of first performances.

Recordings

Over a period of more than 40 years in the Gheorghe Dima Music Academy of Cluj-Napoca, Ferdinand Weiss taught chamber music and music theory, and he contributed pedagogically to the following courses:
" There was a time when Ferdinand Weiss was the foremost accompanying pianist of Romania. The best soloists of the country were thrilled with the opportunity of being accompanied by him on stages of concert halls or in front of the microphones of the radio stations and recording halls, at home and abroad. And when some of the greatest soloists of the world – such as Henryk Szeryng and Ruggiero Ricci – came to Romania, the national concert agency strongly recommended him as a playing partner for their recitals. While having superior artistic and teaching experience, he had the ever-present ability to convey to his students his admiration for masterpieces and for the standards of interpretive mastery.
His classes were like an exercise on belief in music. " - Francisc Laszlo, Steaua, February 2002

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