Description
Members Event
AmiciMusic will perform a special Members Only concert on Thursday, December 18 at 7:30 with a very fun program entitled “FOUR-HAND HOLIDAY.” This program features Artistic Director Daniel Weiser and his fellow pianist colleague Philip Liston-Kraft together on a single piano performing some great arrangements of holiday classics like Sleigh Ride and White Christmas along with virtuoso versions of the Blue Danube Waltz and the Nutcracker Suite. You can watch this beautiful ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano on their special PianoCam visible to the full audience. This is the perfect way to get in the holiday spirit. For more info, visit: https://www.amicimusic.org/concert/four-hand-holiday-asheville-3/
The Weiser/Liston-Kraft Piano Duo has been described as “simply a force of pianistic energy” who play with “a seamless and tightly knit unity,” and who “absolutely smoke the 88 keys.” They have been bringing their captivating, virtuosic, and high energy performances to audiences across the U.S. for over twenty years. Most certainly the only piano duo who both attended Harvard Law School, Weiser and Liston-Kraft bring a flair for the dramatic and a high-wire musical choreography that make their concerts a visual and sonic spectacle.
Philip Liston-Kraft, piano, is a graduate of Harvard College, Tufts University School of Medicine, and the Harvard Law School. After concluding his career in law and medicine as a Senior Director at Biogen in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he obtained his M.A. in Germanic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University and just this year earned his PhD, with a dissertation focusing on medieval German medical and mystical texts. Philip received his musical training at New England Conservatory where he studied piano with Jeannette Giguere and Russell Sherman. At age 16, he performed the Liszt First Piano Concerto with the Boston Pops. With flutist Robin Hendrich, he has recorded the Boismortier Works for Flute and Harpsichord on the Northeastern University record label. He performed for many years with the “Lawyers in Love with Music,” based in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Philip especially enjoys returning to perform with Daniel Weiser in the Hanover, NH area where he worked for the Rassias Center at Dartmouth College for many summers as a TA in French and German.
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 and was a classmate of President Obama. A native of Buffalo, NY, he currently lives in Savannah, GA with his wife, Dr. Kisha Weiser and their twenty-year old twin daughters, Rose and Sophie.
