Alisa Weilerstein (Cello)
Born: 14th April 1982, Rochester, New York, USA
Nationality: American
Artist's website: https://alisaweilerstein.com/
Alisa Weilerstein was born into a musical family in New York in 1982, and began learning the cello at four; her violinist father Donald founded the Cleveland Quartet, and her mother Vivian Jornik Weilerstein is also a professional concert-pianist and chamber-musician. Weilerstein made her concerto debut at 13, performing Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations with the Cleveland Orchestra, and went on to study at the Cleveland Institute of Music and (as an historian) Columbia University.