A sufferer from type 1 diabetes, Weilerstein has served as a celebrity spokesperson for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. On that label, she released the album Bach, featuring that composer's six suites for solo cello, in 2020. She recorded for Decca from 2012 to 2016, and then for PentaTone Classics. Weilerstein made her debut in 2000 as an 18-year-old prodigy with the album Alisa Weilerstein, Cello. In 2018, she began a multi-year engagement as Artistic Partner to Norway's innovative Trondheim Soloists. as a soloist in Dvořák's Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. and Europe, including such Central European stalwarts as the Berlin Philharmonic, the Staatskapelle Berlin, and the Czech Philharmonic, with which she toured the U.S. In traditional repertory, she has appeared as a concerto soloist with numerous major orchestras around the U.S. Weilerstein has also played the difficult Cello Concerto of Elliott Carter, selecting that work for her first recording in 2012. Conceived by the internationally-renowned cellist Alisa Weilerstein, FRAGMENTS is a groundbreaking project for solo cello that weaves together the 36. She has not just championed contemporary music but has premiered multiple pieces by such composers as Osvaldo Golijov and Lera Auerbach. She used some of the proceeds of the latter to develop relationships with living composers. Her career was propelled by several major awards and grants, including the Leonard Bernstein Prize at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival in 2006, and, most important, a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, popularly known as a "genius grant," in 2011. Weilerstein attended Columbia University, majoring in Russian history and graduating in 2004.
Two years later, she performed with the New York Youth Symphony. Alisa Weilerstein joins forces with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and its Czech Music Director, Jiri Blohlavek in a terrific and deeply authentic musical. Weilerstein performed Tchaikovsky's Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. At four, she received one, and within six months, she was performing in public. Alisa was delighted but frustrated that the instrument could not produce musical notes, and she demanded a real cello.
As she recuperated, her mother created a makeshift cello from a Rice Krispies box. At age two and a half, Weilerstein contracted chickenpox. Her parents are Donald Weilerstein, first violinist of the Cleveland Quartet, and pianist Vivian Hornik Weilerstein violinist and conductor Joshua Weilerstein is her brother. Weilerstein was born in Rochester, New York, on April 14, 1982. Her repertory is wide but has been marked by a focus on contemporary music. and Europe and has played chamber music with her parents, both well-known performers, in the Weilerstein Trio. With FRAGMENTS, cellist Alisa Weilerstein creates a space for performer, composer, and listener that is at once physically intimate and philosophically. Cellist Alisa Weilerstein has appeared with leading orchestras all over the U.S.
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