# Alisa Weilerstein
Top podcast episodes
Updated:
alisa weilerstein (born April 14, 1982) is an American classical cellist. She was named a 2011 MacArthur Fellow.
== Life and career ==
Weilerstein was born in Rochester, New York.
Live from the GTMF - S7, Episode 8: Barber and Bernstein
Live from the Grand Teton Music Festival is a series of one-hour podcasts hosted by Music Director Sir Donald Runnicles and GTMF General Manager Jeff Counts. Season Seven celebrates the Festival's 2023 season at Walk Festival Hall in Jackson Hole. Alisa Weilerstein with the Grand Teton Music Festiv…
Alisa Weilerstein
American cellist Alisa Weilerstein talks to Suzy Klein about recording Elgar's Cello Concerto with Daniel Barenboim.
Gabriel Kahane
American composer, singer, songwriter, and sonic storyteller Gabriel Kahane uses pop, folk, and classical music to craft captivating works that illustrate the human experience. Gabriel discusses the importance of using music to create community, his song Sit Shiva, what type of opera he imagines he…
Alisa Weilerstein: Her musical beginnings and groundbreaking solo concert series Fragments
To close out the year, we're revisiting our interview with MacArthur Genius Grant Fellow and American classical cellist Alisa Weilerstein. The internationally celebrated artist discusses her first instruments (made by her grandmother!), her solo debut at age thirteen with the Cleveland Orchestra, a…
Shostakovich Cello Concerto No. 1
It's hard to overstate the depth of the connection between Dmitri Shostakovich and the legendary cellist Mstistlav Rostropovich. Shostakovich and Rostropovich were extremely close friends, and Shostakovich wrote and dedicated several works to him, including the piece we're going to talk about today…
"Practicing the Cello and Patience" - An Interview with Cellist Alisa Weilerstein, International Soloist and Chamber Musician
The Cello Sherpa Podcast Host, Joel Dallow, interviews cellist Alisa Weilerstein. Alisa is enjoying a career as an international soloist and chamber musician. In this interview, she shares what the experience of being recognized with a MacArthur “genius grant” Fellowship in 2011 was like, and how i…
Chamber Music + Nocturne - August 4
Chamber Music with Phillip Virgo
HINDEMITH viola Sonata Op 11 No 4 Heinrich Koll, viola; Madoka Inui, piano ALKAN Trio in G minor Op 30 Trio Alkan MOZART Oboe Quartet in F major K370 Australia Ensemble BEETHOVEN String Quartet No 9 in C major Op 59 No 3 Vermeer Quartet STRAVINSKY Concertino f…
Rafael Payare
Rafael Payare has been a rising star for more than a decade having worked with Gustavo Dudamel, Claudio Abbado, Daniel Barenboim and Lorin Maazel on his way to the Music Director spot in Montreal and San Diego. In his dressing room with the portrait of former Pittsburgh Symphony Music Director Lori…
Cellist Alisa Weilerstein Wonders 'Bout Sound and Meaning, In-Studio
Alisa Weilerstein is more than just a virtuoso cellist; she is also a winner of the MacArthur Fellowship, the so-called “genius” award. There is a real genius in the way Alisa Weilerstein connects music in her solo concerts, combining core classical pieces and commissioning new works to expand the …
Sounds Classical - July 22
[00:00:00] 2:00 pm - Sounds Classical
[00:00:59] with Phillip Virgo
[00:01:04] GRAINGER Colonial Song, The Benaud Trio
[00:07:49] MYSLIVECEK Keyboard Concerto No 2 In F Major,
[00:21:55] KODALY Cello Sonata Op 8, Alisa Weilerstein
[00:55:42] BLUMENFELD Allegro De Concert In A Major Op 7,
[0…
PODCAST SEARCH ENGINE
You can use our website to search 3,822,296 podcasts and 195,529,975 episodes by people, places, or topics.
If I have seen further than others, it is by listening to podcasts and standing upon the shoulders of
giants.
‐ Isaac "Llamacorn" Newton
EDIT
Thank you for helping to keep the podcast database up to date.
