COLLABORATION
Lisa takes a special interest in the commonalities between the arts.
As a guest on Baltimore’s Walters Art Museum “Live: On-Stage” series, she participated in a wide-ranging panel discussion with renowned painter Raoul Middleman on Franz Schubert, Franz Liszt and the intersection of visual art and music, and followed up by a solo recital of Schubert’s B flat sonata and Liszt’s Dante Sonata.
As guest artist for the Forum Concert Series in St. Thomas, VI, she included a contemporary dancer’s choreographed interpretations of Chopin and Bach, and added a singer for a choreographed rendition of Jose Bowen’s “Songs From the Attic,” with texts from the Diary of Anne Frank.
Her lecture-recital, “Tai Chi, Qui Gong and the 24 Preludes of Chopin” won a place at a conference of French Music Performance and Analysis at Brigham Young University in Hawaii, in which she brought to life the connections between mind-body movement and the compositional process.
Married to visual artist Howie Lee Weiss, Weiss composed a piece for solo piano inspired by a set of his drawings for a traveling art show entitled “Collaborations.”
Her essay, “My Husband’s Heads,” published in the Fine Lines Literary Quarterly, is a close-up look at the conversations and interactions between the two artists who co-exist while practicing their separate disciplines.
On the island of Martha’s Vineyard, she provided improvised solo piano music for the women’s dance collective, “What’s Written Within.”
Weiss has made hundreds of drawings using felt-tip markers and 5x7 paper. The drawings appear in videos with studio recordings on her YouTube Channel and also as scenes for her solo piano mini-composition entitled “Four Haikus” that reflect the seasons of the year.
She performed with a computer listening program designed by composer Samuel Burt in "Mixed Signals"
and is a regular guest critic for Baltimore WBJC’s popular radio show, Face the Music, critiquing a wide range of classical recordings including and beyond the piano repertoire.
