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.
