Jay Weigel is a Grammy winning composer, producer, conductor, arranger, orchestrator, and contractor for film, television, recordings, and concerts.
[3] In 1998 Weigel premiered his contemporary opera Ash Wednesday to New Orleans audiences at the opening event of the Faulkner Festival.
Weigel's post-modern opera, Dawn in the Floating City, was presented at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts in 2002.
The Ogden Museum of Southern Art commissioned his fourth opera, The River May Cry, featuring a successful integration of European classical music with blues, gospel, jazz and African music, and utilizing a diverse array of musicians to perform this original work.
In 2004, the St. Louis Cathedral commissioned Weigel's Mass of Pope John Paul II, who died two weeks before the premiere of the work in 2005.
[4] His tenure oversaw the donation of its current building on Camp St., a return to normalcy for the CAC after Hurricane Katrina, the financial hardships of the economic collapse of 2008, and the turmoil of the BP oil spill.
[5][6] He served as the liaison for Warner Brothers while they recorded the scores for the feature films Midnight Special and Our Brand is Crisis, both composed by David Wingo.
In 2020, Weigel scored another Tyler Perry project, the movie “A Fall From Grace”, starring Crystal Fox and Phylicia Rashad.