Piero Weiss Fund Master Class: The Piero Weiss Fund was established in 2012 by Antonio Weiss and Lazard Capital Markets with support of other donors from the Peabody community in memory of Dr. Piero Weiss to support master classes at the Peabody Institute. Dr. Weiss was a prominent pianist and musicologist. In 1985, he founded the music history department at Peabody, where he taught for 26 years.