Matthew Weissman has received a number of top prizes in competitions throughout the United States, including the Young Pianist Competition of New Jersey and the Queens College Cultural Heritage Competition, and more recently has been a prizewinner in the Los Angeles Liszt Competition and laureate at the 2010 Grieg International Competition in Norway. Other awards include second place in the Baldwin Piano Competition, a semi-finalist in the International Web Concert Hall Competition, and was also selected to represent the United States in the Cervantes Festival in Cuba and the Vladimir Horowitz Competition in Ukraine. He has been honored and received scholarships from the National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts, is the recipient of an Indiana University Jacob’s School of Music Travel grant as a winner of the 2010 People’s Choice Award and was named Salt Lake City Expositions 2012 Emerging Artist of the Year.