William Weiner (Hebrew: ויליאם ויינר; Armenian: Վիլյամ Վայներ; Russian: Вилья́м Макси́мович Ва́йнер, commonly known as Willy Weiner) (born 25 November 1955) is an Armenian–Israeli composer, violinist and vocalist; Meritorious Worker of Art of Armenia (2008); a member of the Israel Composers League (2013); president of the Jewish cultural center "Menorah" in Armenia (1994),[1] and director of the Yerevan State Chamber Choir (2018).

[1] In 2008, Willy Weiner was awarded the title of Meritorious Worker of Art of Armenia for his significant contribution to the culture of the country for many years.

The families of Willy Weiner's parents experienced evacuations, enforced expatriation and the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps during World War II.

In 1927, the family of his father, Maxim (Mordkha) Weiner, emigrated from their native city of Uman, Ukraine, to the United States.

After a two-month stay in Yerevan in a prison camp behind the tire plant, the "politically unreliable" were forced into exile in North Kazakhstan (1941–1946).

In the autumn of 1946, the grandmother Miriam Weiner (Chervonaya) and her four children (Maxim, Klara, Bronya and Lida) obtained an exit permit and came back to Yerevan with the hope of finding her husband, but her efforts were in vain.

Maxim Weiner and his wife, Ida Yerusalimskaya, along with their children, son William and daughters Zinaida and Marina, lived in Yerevan for more than 40 years.

Willy Weiner not only possesses a good sense of this music, he hears it from inside and reveals its melodic and harmonious richness artfully mastering the orchestra's palette…" – People's Artist of the USSR Iosif Kobzon.

While listening to Willy Weiner's works, one discovers musical reality "in the shrine", which has certain sanctity and represents the Jewish East.

Weiner's music has been performed by numerous artists all over the world, including Armenia,[3] Georgia,[7] Russia,[8] Israel,[9] Germany[10] and many others.