Robert Weirich leads an extremely active career as a pianist, teacher, author, and activist. He has performed at venues including Alice Tully Hall, the Kennedy Center, Chicago’s Orchestra Hall, Tanglewood, Ravinia, and Marlboro. He holds the Jack Strandberg Missouri Endowed Chair in Piano at the UMKC Conservatory in Kansas City, MO. He has been a frequent contributor to many publications, and from 1984 to 2003 he wrote the columns “The View from the Second Floor” and “Out of the Woods” for Clavier. He is a past president of the College Music Society, and he has twice received the Educational Press Achievement Award for his writing.