Bio

Jacquelyn Marie Weitz began her piano studies at the age of 3 with her mother, Robette Weitz. She has been the recipient of many honors and awards in national and international piano competitions. She has performed at prestigious venues across the world including Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., the Kosciusko Foundation House in New York City, the Bosendorfer Saal in Austria, and the Palazzo Gallio in Lake Como, Italy.  As a teenager she won second place and the Outstanding Musician award at the Bartok-Kabalevsky-Prokofiev International Competition held in Radford, Virginia and received Honorable Mention in the Pinault International Competition in New York City, where she was one of five finalists in the professional division. Twice she has been a national finalist in the Music Teachers National Association competition, and was also awarded third place in the Liszt International Piano Competition in Los Angeles, and named was a prizewinner at the Jefferson Symphony Competition in Colorado. Jacquelyn has performed numerous times as a soloist with the Billings Symphony Orchestra, as well as with the Bozeman, Helena, and Missoula Symphonies in Montana, the Aurora Symphony in Colorado, and the Fort Dodge Symphony in Iowa. 

Jacquelyn has attended the prestigious International Summer Piano Academy at Lake Como, Italy, studying with teachers William Grant Nabore, Stanislav Ioudenitch, and Massimiliano Frani. Jacquelyn graduated from Texas Christian University with a Master's Degree in Piano Performance, where she received a full-tuition scholarship, studying with Harold Martina.  She earned her bachelors degrees from Montana State University–Billings in both Piano and Vocal Performance, where she studied with Dorothea Cromley.  In 2011 she received a Professional Studies Diploma from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where she studied with Paul Hersh.

More recently, Jacquelyn has begun performing professionally as a vocalist. She was the leading soprano for the TCU Collegium Musicum (early music ensemble) , and has been cast in leading roles with the Rimrock Opera Company, singing the part of Miss Silverpeal in Mozart's Impresario, and the role of "Lucy" in Menotti's "The Telephone" in the company's summer productions.  She also sang with the San Francisco Conservatory's Baroque Ensemble during her studies there for piano.

Jacquelyn continued her studies at the San Francisco Conservatory earning her Master's degree in vocal performance, studying with Jane Randolph.   

 Jacquelyn performs private events in the San Francisco Bay Area, and maintains an active teaching studio in Pacific Heights. She also enjoys leading her local church choir and has recently taken up playing the guitar.