Jacquelyn Weitz, pianist

Jacquelyn Weitz is a 22-year-old piano performance major at Montana State University in Billings. She has been the recipient of many honors and awards in national and international piano competitions. Ms. Weitz won second place and the Outstanding Musician award at the Bartok-Kabalevsky-Prokofiev International Competition held in Radford, Virginia. and received an Honorable Mention in the Pinault International Competition in New York City where she was one of five finalists in the professional division. In 2005, she won third place in the Liszt International Piano Competition in Los Angeles and was a finalist and prizewinner at the Jefferson Symphony Competition in Colorado.

Most recently, Ms. Weitz won first place at the MTNA Northwest Division Competition in Portland, Oregon. She has performed twice as a soloist with the Billings Symphony, also appearing with the Bozeman and Helena symphonies, the Missoula Symphony Orchestra, the Aurora Symphony in Colorado, and the Fort Dodge Symphony in Iowa.