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Since their first public concert at the Round Top Festival Institute when cellist Alisa was six years old, the Trio has gained a wide following among diverse audiences. Hailed for its "luminous vibrancy" (Washington Post), the Trio as performed at Lincoln Center in New York City and at prominent venues in Washington, D.C., Cleveland, St. Louis, St. Paul, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Boston. The Trio made their London debut in 2004 at the Royal Academy of Music. They have been guests on National Public Radio's Performance Today and St. Paul Sunday, in addition to a live performance by Alisa and Vivian on NBC and a feature article in More Magazine. The Trio's 2006 CD for Koch Records featuring trios of Dvorak has received rave reviews in both Strings and Fanfare magazines and was featured on NPR's "All Things Considered." Outside of their invigorating explorations of the trio repertoire, the members maintain thriving careers at soloists, duo artists, and teachers--Donald and Vivian as professors at the New England Conservatory and the Juilliard School, Alisa as one of the most sought-after soloists of her generation.
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His recordings with the quartet can be heard on the RCA, Telarc, CBS, Phillips, and Pro Arte labels. These recordings have earned seven Grammy nominations and won Best of the Year awards from Time and Stereo Review.
He was a member of the Young Concert Artists and a participant in the Marlboro Music Festival, performing on several "Music from Marlboro" Tours. In 1968 he won the Munich International Competition for violin and piano duo. Mr. Weilerstein has taught and performed at such major American and European music festivals as Tanglewood, Caramoor, Aspen, Ravinia, Marlboro, Mostly Mozart, Salzburg, Luzern, Verbier, Ishikawa, Keshet Eilon, |
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"Chamber Music Encounters" sponsored by La Cité de la Musique and the Paris Conservatory, and many more. He regulary particpates in the Yellow Barn Music Festival and the Perlman Music Program. He will teach in Shanghai,China this summer as part of the Morningside Music Bridge.
Formerly a professor of violin and chamber music at the Eastman School and the Cleveland Institute of Music, he is currently on the faculty of the New England Conservatory of Music. His students have been prize winners in major national and international competitions, including first prizes in the Indianapolis, Naumburg and Hanover competitions and second prize in the Queen Elizabeth Competition. His students can be heard in many of today's leading orchestras and chamber ensembles. Mr. Weilerstein is also a faculty member at the Juilliard School
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She has recently been a soloist with the Kansas City Symphony and the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale di Torino, and has toured throughout Europe and Japan.
Critics and audiences have welcomed Ms. Weilerstein’s performances as part of the Weilerstein Duo, with violinist Donald Weilerstein. Among their many recitals across the country, the duo has performed at Alice Tully Hall and the 92nd Street Y in New York City and the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C. Their discography includes the complete works of Ernest Bloch for violin and piano and the sonatas of Janácek, Dohnanyi, and Enescu for Arabesque Records and the complete Schumann sonatas for Azica Records. Fanfare declared the Bloch recordings a “must” on the journal’s annual “Want List,” and American Record Guide |
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lauded both the Bloch and Janácek recordings. In addition to the duo recordings, Ms. Weilerstein has recorded for the EMI Debut Series with cellist Alisa Weilerstein.
Ms. Weilerstein has participated in the major American music festivals, including the Marlboro, Aspen, Chamber Music West, Norfolk, Sarasota, Roundtop, and La Jolla festivals. She regularly participates in the Yellow Barn Music Fesitival and the Perlman Music Program, and has been a guest artist at Kneisal Hall, the Young Musicians Festival in Israel, the Daniel Days in Holland, and the Verbier Festival in Switzerland. She will teach this summer(06) in Shanghai,China as part of the Morningside Music Bridge.
Formerly a faculty member of the Cleveland Institute of Music, Ms. Weilerstein is the director of the Professional Piano Trio Training Program at the New England Conservatory, where she also serves on the piano and chamber music faculties. She will be joining the chamber music faculty of the Juilliard School in the fall of 07.
Ms Weilerstein is in demand for master classes and residencies around the world.
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Her highly praised debut disc, recorded with Vivian Hornik Weilerstein, was released on EMI Classics in 2000. That same year, she was awarded an Avery Fisher Career Grant. She was chosen by Carnegie Hall to be an "ECHO" Rising Star in 2001, and she is an alumna of Lincoln Center's Chamber Music Society Two. Ms. Weilerstein was recently named the winner of the 2006 Leonard Bernstein Award, which she received at the Schleswig-Holstein Festival in Germany.
Ms. Weilerstein is continually engaged by orchestras across the U.S. and has performed as soloist with the Baltimore Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Dallas Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Saint Louis Symphony, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, and the Houston Symphony. In Europe she has performed with the Barcelona Symphony, Bournemouth Symphony, Orchestre National de France, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the Gulbenkian Orchestra Lisbon and the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, among many others.
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She makes regular appearances at festivals such as Bad Kissingen, Blossom Music Festival, Caramoor, Green Music Festival, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Schleswig-Holstein, Spoleto USA, Vail, Vancouver Chamber Music Festival, and the Verbier Festival.
In January 2007 Ms. Weilerstein made her New York Philharmonic subscription debut with Zubin Mehta conducting. She gave additional performances with The New York Philharmonic and Mr. Mehta in Philadelphia, and under Lorin Maazel in Tokyo, and also made her debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra under Christoph Eschenbach. Other highlights of her season include performances with the Cincinnati Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, and the Moscow State Symphony as part of their U.S. tour, and three trio recitals with Maxim Vengerov and Lilya Zilberstein at Carnegie Hall, La Salle Pleyel in Paris, and the Barbican in London. This summer she gives the New York premiere of Golijov’s cello concerto, Azul, during the opening concerts of the Mostly Mozart festival. During the 2007-08 season Ms. Weilerstein performs with the Detroit Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, San Diego Symphony, the San Francisco Symphony and the Toronto Symphony, among other engagements. She will also give several recitals throughout the U.S., including the Celebrity Series in Boston. Abroad she performs with the NDR Hamburg, the New York Philharmonic under Lorin Maazel at the Hong Kong Festival, and gives recitals in Bergamo and Milan, Italy. Born in 1982, Ms. Weilerstein made her debut with the Cleveland Orchestra at age 13 and her Carnegie Hall debut two years later. In May 2004, she graduated with from Columbia University with a B.A. in history.
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