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Alisa Weilerstein Biography
A MacArthur Genius Grant-winning classical cellist, she is notable for her Leonard Bernstein Prize-winning performance at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, as well as for her Caramoor International Music Festival performance of composer Lera Auerbach‘s 24 Preludes for Cello and Piano.
She began training as a cellist when she was just four years old and made her debut with the Cleveland Orchestra at the age of thirteen.
She earned an undergraduate degree in Russian history from New York City’s Columbia University.
She is the daughter of pianist Vivian Hornik Weilerstein and Cleveland Quartet violinist Donald Weilerstein and the sister of conductor and violinist Joshua Weilerstein. She and her parents formed the Boston-based Weilerstein Trio.
She champions and frequently performs the work of Grammy-winning contemporary classical composer Osvaldo Golijov.
Alisa Weilerstein (born April 14, 1982) is an American classical cellist. She was named a 2011 MacArthur Fellow.
Weilerstein was born in Rochester, New York. She started playing the cello at age four. She made her debut at age 13 with the Cleveland Orchestra playing Tchaikovsky’s Variations on a Rococo Theme. As a soloist she has performed with a number of other major orchestras on four continents. She also is active in chamber music and performs with her parents, violinist Donald Weilerstein (the founding first violinist of the Cleveland Quartet) and pianist Vivian Hornik Weilerstein, as the Weilerstein Trio. The trio currently resides at the New England Conservatory in Boston. Her brother is the violinist and conductor Joshua Weilerstein (born in 1987). She is married to Venezuelan conductor Rafael Payare.
Weilerstein has received a number of honors. In 2000-2001 she won an Avery Fisher Career Grant and was selected to play in the ECHO “Rising Stars” program and Chamber Music Society II, the young artists’ program of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. In 2004 she graduated from Columbia University in New York City with a BA in Russian history. In 2006 she was awarded the Leonard Bernstein Prize at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival. In 2011 she received a MacArthur Foundation “genius grant”.
In May 2016, she premièred Outscape, Pascal Dusapin’s second cello concerto, with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, to positive critical reception.
In March 2017 at Symphony Hall, she performed the world premiere of Matthias Pintscher’s concerto for cello and orchestra “un despertar” with the Boston Symphony Orchestra to critical acclaim. She plays a 1790 William Forster Cello.
What's Alisa Weilerstein Net Worth 2024
| Net Worth (2024) | $1 Million (Approx.) |
| Net Worth (2023) | Under Review |
| Net Worth (2022) | Under Review |
| Net Worth (2021) | Under Review |
| Net Worth (2020) | Under Review |
Alisa Weilerstein Family
| Father's Name | Not Available |
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| Siblings | Not Available |
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