Welcome to the 2008 Jewish Music Festival
Randall Weiss
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Randall Weiss made his solo violin debut performing the Tchaikowsky Violin Concerto as winner of the Victoria, B.C. Concerto Competition. For 17 years, he was Assistant Concertmaster of the San Jose Symphony, substituting regularly as Concertmaster. He is currently Assistant Concertmaster of Symphony Silicon Valley, one of America’s newest symphony orchestras.
Mr. Weiss has also appeared with the San Francisco Opera, the San Francisco Ballet and the Louisville Orchestra, and has served as Assistant Concertmaster of the Music in the Mountains Festival as well as Concertmaster and soloist with the Santa Cruz County Symphony. His international performances include service as Concertmaster of the AIMS Orchestra in Graz, Austria.
Mr. Weiss trained with Paul Kling at the University of Victoria and the University of Louisville, with Tadeusz Wronski at Indiana University School of Music, and with Sylvia Rosenberg at The Peabody Conservatory. During the summer of 1998, he performed the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto at the acclaimed Eastern Music Festival, where he has been a faculty member since 1989.
- Major Sponsors
- Alliance for California Traditional Arts
- Anisman/Sherman Family and Julie Sherman
- Bernard Osher Jewish Philanthropies Foundation of the Jewish Community Endowment Fund
- Gaia Fund
- Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund
- Gottesman-Biddle Family Philanthropic Fund (JCEF)
- Guzik Foundation
- Walter and Elise Haas Fund
- The Jewish Community Federation and Foundation of the Greater East Bay
- Taube Foundation for Jewish Life and Culture (JCEF)
- Koret Foundation
- Forest Creatures Entertainment
- Official Wine Sponsor: Hagafen
- Official Chocolate Sponsor: Alegio Chocolate




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