Justin Weiss

Conducting

Justin conducts a range of music and specializes in new music and premiering new works. He has conducted dozens of premieres internationally and for a variety of mediums as well as standard orchestral repertoire. Justin is the co-artistic/executive director for the new Chicago-based contemporary music ensemble, Mycelium New Music. He is also the conductor and co-director of the University of Chicago New Music Ensemble.

Please contact Justin for conducting inquiries.

Videos can be supplied upon request.

Below is a partial list of repertoire conducted in performance and/or rehearsal. *Denotes premiere.  

• Adams – Shaker Loops

• Bartók – Romanian Folk Dances

• Bartók – Concerto for Orchestra

• Beethoven – Coriolan Overture

• Beethoven – Overture to Egmont

• Beethoven – Symphony No. 1, 2, 4, 9

• Berio - O King

• Josh Biggs – Alalia*

• Brahms – Academic Festival Overture

• Britten – Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings (excerpts)

• Britten – Simple Symphony

• John Burnett – other, superior dimensions*

• Copland – Appalachian Spring: Suite (Orchestra and 13 Instrument Versions)

• Copland – Quiet City

• Debussy - Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune

• Sebastian Currier – Broken Consort

• Jacob Druckman – Counterpoise

• Nicole Gutman – Tesla in Love*

• Marco Galvani - Shadows*

• Alex Hall - Drape*

• Handel – The Messiah (excerpts)

• Jonah Haven – Smear...Slather... Slur*

• Jonah Haven – dream house*

• Honegger – Pastorale d’ete

• Xue Ju – The Diving Bell and the Butterfly*

• Daniel Karcher – I May Die Tomorrow*

• Langlais – Messe Solennelle

• Lei Liang - Verge

• Ligeti - Chamber Concerto

• Yizhang Lui – Resonance*

• Wenbin Lyu - Turbulent Mind

• Lutoslawski – Chain 1

• Lutoslawski – Dance Preludes

• James Macmillan – As others see us

• Mahler – Ruckert Lieder

• Mozart – Divertimento K. 136

• Mozart – Overture to The Magic Flute

• Mozart – Symphony No. 36, 38, 39, 40, 41

• Mussorgsky (Orch. Ravel) – Pictures at an Exhibition

• Pauline Ng – One by One*

• Pauline Ng – Prologue*

• Paul Novak - dialogues in color*

• Paul Novak - entwining

• Paul Novak - prisms and mirrors

• Paul Novak - somatic interludes*

• Elizabeth Ogonek – Falling Up

• Matthew Omahan – Adrift*

• Puccini – La Boheme (excerpts)

• Puccini – Madama Butterfly (excerpts)

• Poulenc - Le Bestiaire

• Rachmaninov – Isle of the Dead

• Shulamit Ran – Lyre of Orpheus

• Ravel – Ma mere l’oye (suite)

• Ravel – Piano Concerto

• Ravel – Pavane Pour Une Infante Défunte

• Rimsky-Korsakov – Scheherazade

• Augusta Read Thomas – Selene

• Augusta Read Thomas - Passion Prayers

• Saariaho - Lichtbogen

• Jeff Shaller - Dystopia*

• Schoenberg - Pierrot Lunaire (Selections)

• Shostakovich – Chamber Symphony

• Shostakovich – Symphony No. 5, 10

• Alfred Schnittke – Concerto Grosso

• Sean Shepherd - Octet

• Sibelius – Valse Triste

• Corie Rose Soumah - oscilliations/dénouages/artificialités/frisure des pluies*

• Stravinsky – L’histoire du Soldat

• Stravinsky – Rite of Spring

• Tchaikovsky – Symphony No. 4

• Vivaldi – Concerto for Two Trumpets

• Ania Vu - Five in One

• Wagner – Siegfried Idyll

• Weir – Piano Concerto

• Weiss – when you wondered*

• Weiss – Drifting Impressions*

• Hao Zou – Unspeakable Landscape*