Assaff Weisman

First Prize Winner in the 2006 Iowa Piano Competition, pianist Assaff Weisman has appeared at some of the major venues of Europe, the Middle East and the Americas including the the Rudolfinum in Prague, the Beethovenhalle in Bonn as well as in Spain, Holland, Sweden, Italy and the UK. In the United States he has performed at New York’s Lincoln Center and the Music Festival of the Hamptons, the Krannert Center in Illinois, the Flagler Museum in Florida and has been featured on radio and television broadcasts. His 2002 release of an all Schubert recording for yamahamusicsoft.com “NYC Rising Star” series became one of its best sellers. An avid chamber musician, Mr. Weisman has taken part in the Aspen Music Festival, Campos do Jordão (Brazil), the Lima Chamber Music Festival, The Music Festival of the Hamptons and Verbier (Switzerland). He is a graduate of The Juilliard School where he studied with Herbert Stessin and where he now is a member of the Evening Division piano faculty. Prior to his studies in New York Mr. Weisman studied with Professor Victor Derevianko in Israel and was supported by scholarships from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation.