Alyssa Weinberg Composer
Composer Alyssa Weinberg uses color, texture, and gesture to channel big emotions, creating music that is “quite literally stunning” (Chicago Tribune). She is fascinated with perception and loves to play with form, subverting expectations to create surreal scenarios, often in dreamy, multidisciplinary productions.
Weinberg’s poetic monodrama ISOLA, a prismatic meditation on time, mental health, and isolation written in collaboration with librettist J. Mae Barizo, was premiered by Long Beach Opera in February 2024 to critical acclaim. She was awarded a 2022 Opera America Discovery Grant to facilitate the development of Drift, a new opera touching on themes of motherhood, migration, and climate change.
Weinberg’s music has been performed by celebrated ensembles around the world, including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, San Diego Symphony, and the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, as well as Sō Percussion, yMusic, PUBLIQuartet, and the Aizuri Quartet. She has received commissions and awards from organizations including Chamber Music America, Copland House, New Music USA, FringeArts and the Pennsylvania Ballet, the Barnes Foundation, and the Curtis Institute of Music. Weinberg’s percussion music has been celebrated for its inventive use of color and innovative performance techniques, most notably for her prepared vibraphone duo Table Talk, which has received hundreds of performances across the globe.
A dedicated educator, Weinberg currently teaches at Peabody Conservatory, Mannes School of Music, and Juilliard Pre-College. Alyssa Weinberg holds a PhD in composition from Princeton University, as well as degrees from Vanderbilt University, Manhattan School of Music, and the Curtis Institute of Music.