COLLABORATIONS
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.”
Osvaldo Golijov: ZZ's Dream (2008) - Jesse Keller, dancer
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.
