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Allison Weissman

About Me


Born in Philadelphia, Allison has been involved with music since the age of 7. For her bachelor of music degree, she attended Ithaca College in Ithaca, NY where she studied composition with Dana Wilson and Greg Woodward and piano with Charis Dimaras. She then received her masters degree at the Cleveland Institute of Music in Cleveland, OH where she studied piano with Antonio Pompa-Baldi and Emanuela Friscioni. Allison now currently resides in New York, NY and works for renowned composer, Lukas Ligeti. She loves writing and performing new music and is always looking for interesting projects. For more information, please visit her website:

http://allisonweissman.com

And don't forget to sign the guestbook!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/6/2007
Band Website: http://www.allisonweissman.com
Band Members: Allison Weissman...she's a one-woman band!
Influences: COMPOSERS: Bela Bartok, Samuel Barber, Gyorgy Ligeti, Manuel de Falla, Joseph Schwantner, Steve Reich, George Crumb, Pierre Boulez, John Cage, Thomas Ades, Robert Beaser, Aaron Jay Kernis, J.S. Bach, Frederic Chopin, and many more.

She also loves Jazz and Latin styles...David Sanchez, Hiromi, Arturo Sandoval, Bill Evans, Avishai Cohen, Cubanismo, Chucho Valdez, Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, and so many more.

OTHER ARTISTS: Martha Argerich, Ivo Pogorelich, Evgeny Kissin, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Emanuel Ax, Sviatoslav Richter, Pierre Laurent-Aimard, etc.

POETRY, ETC.: Mary Oliver, Victor Hernandez Cruz, Allen Ginsberg, Shakespeare, etc.

FILM: Stanley Kubrick, David Lynch, Robert Zemeckis, Alfred Hitchcock, Stan Brakhage, and Luis Bunuel.

ART: Kandinsky, Miro, Pollack, Duchamp, Dali, Man Ray, Matisse, Picasso, Mondrian, Diego Rivera, Tarsila do Amaral, and many more.
Sounds Like: Allison.............and maybe a bit of Bartok, Barber, and others on the influence list. :)
Record Label: Unsigned

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