Sharon Weyser

Originally from New York, Sharon Weyser resides in Indianapolis where she maintains an active career as a performer, educator and administrator. She is a member of the Lafayette, Terre Haute, and Danville Symphony Orchestras, and is a frequent sub with orchestras throughout the midwest including the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Traverse Symphony and many others.

Sharon has been on the faculty of IU Indianapolis since 2015 serving as instructor of Horn, Music Theory and World Music. She has also served on the faculty of Indiana State University as a Music Theory Instructor and Visiting Professor of Horn and Music Theory.

Internationally, Sharon has performed throughout Asia, Europe and Mexico. From 2012-2014 she was Co-Principal of the Hollywood Concert Orchestra touring China and Japan. Sharon has performed throughout Austria and Hungary with the Classical Music Festival Orchestra based in Eisenstadt, Austria and throughout Mexico with the Acapulco Philharmonic.

Sharon holds several administrative positions. She is the personnel manager for the Danville Illinois Symphony and the Lafayette Symphony. She has also served as Executive Director for the not for profit Organization, Book Readers and Horn Blowers and worked as development associate for a children’s theater.

Sharon is a 2022-2023 recipient of a Creative Renewal Arts Fellowship grant from the Indianapolis Arts Council. With this award, Sharon will travel to Vienna, Austria to purchase and learn to play the Vienna Horn, an ancestor of the modern double horn that is played today. She is honored to have been chosen to be part of this fellowship cohort of artists from various disciplines across central Indiana.

Sharon holds a DMA from Stony Brook University, an MM from Indiana University and BM from the Eastman School of Music.