Meet Our Artists
Ann and Paul Weber, piano and trumpet
ANN WEBER, one of the leading piano teachers in the Pittsburgh area, holds a degree in Piano Performance from the Carnegie Mellon School of Music. While at Carnegie Melon University, she was a student of Webster Aitken and continued her studies with Eunice Norton, renowned concert pianist and the student of legendary Artur Schnabel. Ann is a frequent guest soloist with the Pittsburgh Civic Orchestra, is currently teaching students ranging in age from 7 to 70, and is active in Symphony South, an organization that supports the Pittsburgh Symphony and Children’s Concerts in the Washington, PA area. She has appeared in many festivals and conservatories including Oberlin, Yale, and Cincinnati, and she has concertized with the “Concert Artists”, a chamber music ensemble which toured the major cities and universities of the East Coast. Cheryl “Quack” Moore began piano studies with Ann at the age of 15 and is considered a “wonderful and dear friend” as well as one of her “most talented and successful students”. Ann and her husband Paul reside in Washington, PA and are the parents of three sons.
PAUL WEBER is the principal trumpet of the Pittsburgh Civic Orchestra. He is a graduate of Carnegie-Mellon University and received his Master Degree from the New England Conservatory of Music, where he studied with Roger Voisin of the Boston Symphony. During the summer he plays in a brass ensemble at Chautauqua and he is a founding member of the Thursday Morning Brass at Chautauqua. They perform throughout the season and monies raised provide a scholarship for a brass instrumental student of the Chautauqua Festival Orchestra. Paul is retired from Public School Music as Director of Instrumental Music and Conductor of Bands and Orchestra.