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AmiciMusic, the award-winning chamber music organization from Asheville, returns for another exciting concert on Saturday, April 18 at 2:00pm entitled “THE LOVE TRIANGLE” Pianist and Artistic Director Daniel Weiser returns with Irina Rostomashvili, an amazing young violinist from the Republic of Georgia, in a beautiful and lyrical program featuring works for violin and piano by Robert and Clara Schumann along with Johannes Brahms. Dr. Weiser will also talk about the very intimate connections between these three amazing Romantic composers.
Irina Rostomashvili, violinist, is the youngest faculty member and Artist in Residence at Temple University’s Music Preparatory Program. She recently joined the Summit Music Festival in New York as violin faculty. A dedicated performer and teacher, she inspires her students to achieve success in national and international competitions, auditions, and performances at Carnegie Hall. She performs extensively across the United States, including New York City, Philadelphia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C., and is a member of the Vox Amadeus Orchestra and the Philadelphia String Quartet. As a soloist, she has appeared with the Tbilisi Opera and Ballet Theatre Orchestra, Georgian Philharmonic Orchestra, Tbilisi Symphony Orchestra, Ambler Symphony, and Old York Road Symphony Orchestras. Born in Tbilisi, Georgia, she studied at the Zakaria Paliashvili Central Music School for Gifted Children and later at the Tbilisi State Conservatoire, where she also served as associate concertmaster of the Tbilisi Youth Orchestra. She won first prize at the 2017 National Music Competition of Georgia and the International String Competition in Castelnuovo di Garfagnana, Italy. She later moved to the United States to study at Temple University’s Boyer College of Music and Dance, where she completed her Bachelor of Music, Artist Diploma and Master of Music degree under Eduard Schmieder. She has just begun her Doctor of Musical Arts at Temple as well. In 2021, she won the Temple University Concerto Competition and performed Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 1 with the Temple University Symphony Orchestra. Her career includes performances at the IPalpiti Festival in Los Angeles and San Diego, debuts with the Ambler Symphony and Old York Road Symphony Orchestras, and work with the Curtis Symphony Orchestra. In 2023, she was awarded a Teaching Artist Fellowship from the Classical Music Institute in San Antonio and has been recognized for her leadership and contributions to the performing arts. Most recently, she has joined the Embassy Concert series and Artcinia, performing chamber music. She plays a modern violin made by Christopher Germain in 2025!
Daniel Weiser, piano, has a Doctorate in Piano/Chamber Music from the Peabody Conservatory, where he studied with Samuel Sanders and Robert MacDonald and won the Richard Franko Goldman prize for outstanding contribution to musical and educational life. He has performed on many great stages, including the Weill Recital Hall of Carnegie Hall, the National Gallery of Art in D.C., and on the Dame Myra Hess Concert Series in Chicago. He has also concertized around the world, including Israel, Thailand, Holland, and France and was the 1996 U.S. Artistic Ambassador Abroad, for which he performed on an eleven-country tour of the Middle East and Asia. He has been on the music faculty of Dartmouth College and the prestigious St. Paul’s School in Concord, NH. Besides founding AmiciMusic, he co-founded and still serves as Artistic Director for Classicopia, a similar type of chamber music organization based in New Hampshire. He was also a founding member of the Adirondack Ensemble, which won a Chamber Music America award for inventive programming and outreach. He has participated in the New Hampshire Music Festival, Musicorda, and the Apple Hill Chamber Music Festival and has been the Music Director of the Da Corneta Opera Ensemble, the Opera North Young Artist program, and Opera New England. A phi beta kappa graduate of Columbia University with a degree in American History, he also spent a year at Harvard Law School at the same time as President Obama. A native of Buffalo, NY, he currently lives in Savannah, GA with his wife, Dr. Kisha Weiser and their twin daughters, Rose and Sophie