BroadwayWorld.com reports that the Pennsylvania Ballet has promoted Jenkintown’s own Peter Weil to soloist.

Mr. Weil trained at the Metropolitan Ballet Academy and Company. He has performed the principal role of Basilio in Angel Corella’s Don Quixote, as well as featured roles in Christopher Wheeldon’s For Four and George Balanchine’s The Four Temperaments (Melancholic).

The BroadwayWorld article cites an impressive background:

Weil began his classical dance training at Metropolitan through its renowned Boys’ Scholarship Program, which over two decades has provided high quality, tuition-free instruction and performance opportunities for hundreds of boys ages 7 to 18. Weil was a Youth America Grand Prix medalist and New York semifinalist from 2009 to 2015, and in 2015 was a participant for the prestigious Prix de Lausanne in Switzerland. Prior to joining Pennsylvania Ballet’s PBII company in 2015, he earned full scholarships to summer intensive programs at the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School of the American Ballet Theatre, Orlando Ballet, and Boston Ballet, where he completed a traineeship in 2013. He was later a new artist under Peter Stark at Next Generation Ballet. While studying at Metropolitan, Weil often performed in children’s roles with the Pennsylvania Ballet.

See Mr. Weil’s profile at the PA Ballet’s website here.

Image courtesy of the Pennsylvania Ballet.