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Hello! My name is Jay Weiner.

I am sixteen years old and am currently enrolled in the S7 Music 4 course at EEB1, the European School in Brussels, Belgium. My primary instrument is voice, but I spent six years playing cello and have recently picked up the electric bass.

Music has been a central part of my life for as long as I can remember, my mother always encouraged me to interact with music in all its forms. At the age of seven, I joined the preparatory choir of the La Monnaie Children and Youth Choirs, and have since moved on to La Choraline (the 13-18 year section of the Youth Choirs).

I’ve taken part in various operas and musicals in recent years, such as SNAKE, by Howard Moody, Charlie and the Chocolate factory (as Charlie), Die Zauberflöte (as the third Knabe), The Sound of Music (as Friedrich Von Trapp, produced by the company Ars Lyrica), The Mikado, by Gilbert and Sullivan (produced by the Brussels Light Opera Company, BLOC), SOLAR – Icarus Burning, by Howard Moody (with the Youth Choir, at La Monnaie), Der Rosenkavalier, by Richard Strauss (in small choir, at La Monnaie), and others.

I’ve also participated in several recordings (Carmen, A Christmas Journey, 2:Love) and many performances with my choir, including two concerts at the Belgian Royal Palace in Laeken, a small solo in Benoit Mernier’s Dickinson Songs at BOZAR, conducted by Alain Altinoglu, and a week-long International Youth Choir Festival in Hanover, Germany.

The highlight of my musical career so far was performing the title role of the contemporary opera “Fanny and Alexander”, at La Monnaie Royal Opera House, by the Swedish composer Mikael Karlsson, conducted by Ariane Matiakh and directed by Ivo van Hove, next to important singers such as Thomas Hampson and Anne Sofie von Otter.

I am looking forward to joining the Guildhall School of Music and Drama of London in September 2026 to pursue a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Studies.