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Alisa Weilerstein

Cello

Biography

Alisa Weilerstein is one of the foremost cellists of our time. Known for her consummate artistry, emotional investment, and rare interpretive depth, she was recognized with a MacArthur “genius grant” Fellowship in 2011. Her global career takes her to prestigious international venues for solo recitals, chamber concerts, and concerto collaborations. 

Weilerstein regularly appears alongside today’s preeminent conductors with the major orchestras of the US, Europe, and Asia. She is a leading exponent of the cello repertoire’s greatest classics and a proponent of contemporary music, premiering and championing new works by composers including Pascal Dusapin, Osvaldo Golijov, Matthias Pintscher, and Joan Tower.

Her multi-season solo project FRAGMENTS rethinks the concert experience via a six-program series that weaves together the 36 movements of J.S. Bach’s solo cello suites with 27 new commissions. She premiered the first two programs in Toronto in 2023, with subsequent performances in Tanglewood, Santa Barbara, San Diego, Cleveland, and Carnegie Hall. This season she performs them in Boston’s Celebrity Series, Montreal’s Maison Symphonique, La Jolla’s Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center, and Los Angeles’s Walt Disney Concert Hall, and premieres FRAGMENTS 4 at The Kennedy Center.

In 2020 Weilerstein released a best-selling recording of Bach’s solo suites (on Pentatone), streamed them as her innovative #36DaysOfBach, and deconstructed his G-major Prelude in a Vox.com video that has been viewed more than 2.2 million times. Her discography includes chart-topping albums, with one album being named BBC Music’s Recording of the Year, and she performed at The White House for President and Mrs. Obama. Diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at nine, Alisa Weilerstein is an advocate for the T1D community.

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