Cellist Alisa Welierstein by Linda

Alisa Weilerstien
Full Name: Alisa Weilerstien
Birthday: 1982 (No Specific Date found)
State of Origin: Rochester, New York, USA
Genre: Classical or Contemporary

What are they known for?: She has played in many of the top orchestras at only the age of 27.

Biography: Alisa Weilerstien lived in a musical family: her dad Donald, a violinist, and her mother Vivian, a pianist. She first picked up the cello at age four and then discovered that she had real natural talent for the instrument. She hit a slight bump in her life when at age 9 she was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes. At age 13 she made her debut with the Cleveland Orchestra in October of 1995. Alisa Weilerstien studied cello in the Cleveland Institute of Music in the youth program.
Since her graduation from the youth program, she was invited back in August 2009 to teach young cellists, coming two days per semester. She continued to play cello until she graduated from Columbia University with a degree in Russian History in 2004. Weilerstien has played with many orchestras such as the Boston Symphony, the Chicago Symphony, and the Barcelona Symphony. She also does solo works and plays with her parents as the Weilerstien Trio. Other than music Alisa Weilerstein is an advocate for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Program.

Links:
http://www.alisaweilerstein.com/index.php
http://www.instantencore.com/contributor/contributor.aspx?CId=5081295
http://www.stringsmagazine.com/article/default.aspx?articleid=25174

CD’s Currently in Print: -DEBUT - Alisa Weilerstein & Vivian Hornik Weilerstein
Works for Cello and Piano (2000)
-Janáček & Schumann Trios (2009)
-Dvorak Trios (2006)

Video Links:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8FqVLEiqVw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT5IUQynPkg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOPIeYFsNyo

Other Info:

Tour Schedule: June to August 2010

May 31-June 13
Charleston, SC
Dock Street Theater
Spoleto Festival USA
Chamber music concerts every day at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Artists and repertoire to be announced from the stage.

June 15
Washington, DC
Sixth & I Historic Synagogue
Washington Performing Arts Society
Recital with Inon Barnatan.

July 10
Bad Kissingen, Germany
Bad Kissingen Festival
Gulbenkian Orchestra with conductor Lawrence Foster

July 18
Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Schleswig-Holstein Festival
Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra with conductor Christoph Eschenbach

July 31- August 8
Amsterdam, Holland
Delft Chamber Music Festival

August 13
Lenox, MA
Tanglewood, Koussevitzky Music Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Miguel Harth-Bedoya
Osvaldo Golijov Mariel

August 17
Aspen, CO
Aspen Music Festival
Recital with Jamey Haddad (percussion), Keita Ogawa (percussion) and Michael Ward-Bergeman (hyper-accordion)

August 27
London, UK
BBC Proms (debut)
Minnesota Orchestra conducted by Osmo Vanska

August 29
Edinburgh, Scotland
Edinburgh International Festival (debut)
Minnesota Orchestra conducted by Osmo Vanska
Elgar Cello Concerto

August 30-September 12
Jerusalem, Israel
Jerusalem Chamber Music Festival