Rehearsal Pianist

Henry Weinberger, Rehearsal Pianist

Henry Weinberger has accompanied singers, instrumentalists, and choruses in concerts and recitals in the Boston area for many years. This is his thirteenth year as rehearsal pianist for the Back Bay Chorale. Former positions include accompanying the MIT Chorus, under the direction of Bill Cutter, and working with Betsy Burleigh and the Master Singers of Lexington.

Henry received a Master of Music in Piano Performance at the New England Conservatory, where he studied with Leonard Shure and accompanied the chorus under the direction of Lorna Cooke DeVaron. His other principal teachers were Victor Rosenbaum at Brandeis University and John Moriarty, with whom he studied operatic repertoire and under whom he worked as staff accompanist at the Boston Conservatory of Music and assistant conductor at Central City Opera in Colorado.

Henry has played rehearsals under the batons of Seiji Ozawa, Arthur Fiedler, and Kurt Mazur, among others. Further highlights of his career were performing with the Boston Pops under John Williams and playing one of the piano parts of Orff’sCarmina Buranaat Carnegie Hall in New York City. He has served on the faculty of the Longy School in Cambridge, where he taught classes in vocal repertoire and diction for singers and was the music director of the opera department. Henry made a career change in 1989, when he began training to become a nurse. He worked at Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates for twenty-four years, where he specialized in the care of people with HIV, hepatitis C, and other infectious diseases.