Frank Weinstock

Professor of Piano
Chair, Piano Department

College-Conservatory of Music
University of Cincinnati
P0 Box 210003
Cincinnati, OH 45221-0003
telephone: 5l3-556-9560 fax: 513-556-9641
Frank.Weinstock@UC.EDU

Frank Weinstock grew up in Oberlin, Ohio, and went on to earn performance degrees from the Oberlin and New England Conservatories of Music. His piano studies were primarily with Emil Danenberg, Victor Rosenbaum, Claude Frank, Lilian Kallir, and Edith Oppens.In demand as a recitalist, concerto soloist, and chamber musician, Mr. Weinstock is also busy teaching master classes and judging piano competitions. His formal New York debut was in 1977, and tours have taken him throughout North America, and to Europe, Asia, and South America. He has appeared with such conductors as Keith Lockhart, Jesus Lopez-Cobos, Gunther Schuller, Luthero Rodrigues, and Jorge Mester, and as a chamber musician with the late Leonard Rose, Glenn Dicterow, Larry Combs, the Percussion Group Cincinnati, the Tokyo Quartet, and with members of the Guarneri, LaSalle, Manhattan, and Berkshire Quartets. His repertoire is wide-ranging, although he is particularly known for his penetrating interpretations of the Viennese classics.

In addition to teaching and performing, Professor Weinstock works as a software engineer, developing computer applications for the serious music performer and student. He is the creator and author of an important new piece of software, In Concert, published by Cakewalk Music Software, which provides an automatic intelligent accompanist for a keyboard player. This software, which has applications ranging from the elementary piano student to the professional pianist preparing a concerto performance, and even beyond the "classical" piano world, has been hailed as one of the best partnerships yet of the human musician and computer technology.

Frank Weinstock is Professor of Piano at the University of Cincinnati, and was featured in Benjamin Saver's recent book "The Most Wanted Piano Teachers in the USA". Coming from six continents, his former students, including Anton Nel and Michael Chertock, are themselves prominent performers and teachers--recording for many prestigious labels and teaching at universities around the world.

In the summers, Mr. Weinstock is a member of the piano faculty of the Aspen Music Festival, and he has played and taught at many other festivals, including the Eastern Music Festival, where he was chair of the piano department, and the Skaneateles Festival. Before coming to Cincinnati in 1980, he taught piano at Princeton University for three years.

Professor Weinstock has been a member of the artist faculty of the College-Conservatory of Music since 1980.