Alisa Weilerstein - New York

Alisa Weilerstein

Alisa Weilerstein was born in 1982 to musical parents. Her father, Donald Weilerstein, is the first violin of the Cleveland Quartet, and her mother, Vivian Hornil Wilerstein, is a professor at the New England Conservatory, teaching both piano and chamber music. Ms. Weilerstein began playing the cello at four, giving her first recital not soon after. She holds a degree in Russian history from Columbia University. The Weilerstein Trio consists of her and her parents, and they are currently the Trio-in-Residence at the New England Conservatory. Her EMI Classics Debut CD came out in 2000, when she won an Avery Fisher Career Grant, and garnering for herself international attention. [Source: From the San Francisco Symphony biography, playbill for Dvorak's Cello Concerto in B Minor, Opus 104 (1895), printed June 2008] . User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.