Alisa Weilerstein
Cello
Alisa Weilerstein (Rochester, USA, 1982) started playing the cello at four years of age and made her concert-stage debut when she was thirteen. As a soloist she has performed with a number of major orchestras on four continents. She is also 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.
A champion of contemporary music, Alisa Weilerstein has worked extensively with composers such as Osvaldo Golijov, Lera Auerbach and Joseph Hallman, several of whose works, written specifically for her, she premiered. Alisa Weilerstein plays a cello made by William Forster in 1790.