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Lei Weng

1. Assistant Professor of Music
   Piano
   Frasier 23
   970-351-2615
   lei.weng@unco.edu

Dr. Lei Weng was hailed as "the exceptionally brilliant Chinese pianist" in his Seattle debut with the Northwest Mahler Festival Symphony. New York Concert Review acclaimed his Carnegie Hall sold-out debut with “a colorist of exemplary control.” Weng received a follow-up invitation to perform at Carnegie Hall two months later after which New York Concert Reviews wrote, “Weng displayed a powerhouse technique and provided good contrast with delicate moments.”

Weng has performed throughout the United States, Asia, and Europe in such prestigious venues as Carnegie Hall, Merkin Hall, Steinway Hall, Seiji Ozawa Hall, Beijing Music Hall, Taichung National Symphony Hall, Kaohsiung Cultural Center, and Banff Center. As a frequent concerto soloist, Weng has performed with orchestras from Cincinnati, Seattle, Indiana, Louisiana, Fort Worth, Greeley, Beijing, Tianjin, Qingdao, Kaohsiung, Taitung, and with the China National Symphony and Chorus and the UNC Symphony Orchestra. He has performed with such world-renowned musicians as James Levine, Emanuel Ax, Cho-liang Lin, Pamela Franck, Dawn Upshaw, and Phyllis Curtin.

Weng is the laureate of many major competitions having won the top prize in the Isabel Scionti International Piano Competition and the Camerata Piano Competition, Silver Medal in the Wideman International Piano Competition, and prizewinner in the China National Piano Competition.

Weng is Assistant Professor of Music, Piano at the University of Northern Colorado. He is a frequent guest professor at many top Asian conservatories such as the Central Conservatory in Beijing. His students have won top prizes at national and international competitions. He serves as Co-Founder/Co-Director of the Colorado Piano Festival.

Weng’s primary teachers include Frank Weinstock, William Black, Claude Frank, Xie Yuan, Guo Zhihong, and Zhou Guangren.