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 contemporary music ensemble, Mycelium New Music. He is also the conductor and co-director of the University of Chicago New Music Ensemble and director of the Montclair State University 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*