All Alisa Weilerstein articles
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VideoAlisa Weilerstein discusses a new solo cello project
Cellist Alisa Weilerstein embarks on a new project incorporating contemporary compositions with J.S Bach’s famous solo cello suites
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Alisa Weilerstein performs at Wigmore Hall
The cellist performs a solo programme of Golijov as well as the second and third Bach suites
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Alisa Weilerstein cancels concert due to positive Covid test
The internationally acclaimed cellist has withdrawn from her concert with the LA Phil and Gustavo Dudamel
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‘Impossible Orchestra’ brings together 29 star players from 14 countries
The project, initiated by Mexican conductor Alondra de la Parra, aims to raise money for worthwhile causes
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Alisa Weilerstein: Bach
A standout, meditative and individual approach to the cellists’ cornerstone
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Cellist Alisa Weilerstein on working with conductors
The American musician discusses performing concertos with conductors and how she navigates interpretative disagreements
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Alisa Weilerstein deconstructs the Prelude from Bach’s Cello Suite no.1 in G major
The American soloist offers her insight into how Bach created music of such timelessness
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Concert review: Alisa Weilerstein (cello) London Symphony Orchestra/François-Xavier Roth
Peter Quantrill gives his thoughts on the performance at London’s Barbican, 19 December 2019
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Concert review: Alisa Weilerstein (cello) New York Philharmonic/Jakub Hrůša
Leah Hollingsworth attends the performance at New York’s Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center, on 21 November 2019
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Alisa Weilerstein and Trondheim Soloists - 16 October 2019
‘When I sit in the orchestra and we do the Schoenberg together it feels like chamber music on a very large scale, and that’s the ideal thing’. So says Alisa Weilerstein of the Trondheim Soloists, with whom she will perform R Strauss’s Prelude for string sextet from Capriccio, Tchaikovsky’s ...
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Cellist Alisa Weilerstein on optimal body movement while playing
The cello is a big, unwieldy instrument and it is easy to let it control you, if you are not careful...' Cellist Alisa Weilerstein speaks with Paul Katz at Boston’s New England Conservatory of Music about using body motion to optimal effect when playing. The interview was ...
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BBC Proms 2017 season revealed - including a feast of violin concertos
The 123rd Proms season takes place in London’s Royal Albert Hall and Cadogan Hall over eight weeks from Friday 14 July to Saturday 9 September
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Alisa Weilerstein rehearses Dvorák's Cello Concerto
Cellist Alisa Weilerstein rehearses the first movement of Dvorák's Cello Concerto with Orchestre de Paris conducted by Emmanuel Krivine for a performance which took place on 13 May 2015 at the Paris Philharmonie. Watch: Cellist Alisa Weilerstein on memorising music Watch: Alisa Weilerstein performs Kodály’s Solo Cello ...
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Cellist Alisa Weilerstein on taking a piece from the practice room to the stage
Alisa Weilerstein: 'When getting ready to play in public I find it's so helpful to play for my friends and for people who know me really well, because it's actually more difficult to play for them than it is to play for an audience full of strangers' ...
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Alisa Weilerstein gives cello masterclass at Prague's Rudolfinum
You play much better in tune when you don't stare at the fingerboard. The brain should tell the fingers what to do. If you look at your fingers before your brain has had a chance to direct, you will reverse the process' Alisa Weilerstein gives a cello ...
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Cellist Alisa Weilerstein announces pregnancy
The artist is expecting her first child with husband and conductor Rafael Payare
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Cellist Alisa Weilerstein on memorising music
If I'm memorising something intricate, I will take a small chunk and sing it, because the ear always has to lead. Then I play with the left hand alone.' Cellist Alisa Weilerstein gives advice on memorising music during an interview for Classical Chops. Watch: Alisa Weilerstein performs Kodály’s Solo Cello ...
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Cellist Alisa Weilerstein performs Kodály's Solo Sonata
Alisa Weilerstein performs Kodály's Solo Cello Sonata at the White House in Washington D.C. in November 2009. The cellist has written a Practice Diary, in which she talks about the work, for The Strad's June 2015 issue, out now. Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital ...
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Solo. Kodály: Solo Cello Sonata op.8. Golijov: Omaramor. Cassadó: Suite for solo cello. Sheng: Seven Tunes Heard in China
The Strad Issue: February 2015 Description: A highly rewarding disc of works for solo cello Musicians: Alisa Weilerstein (cello) Composer: Kodály, Golijov, Cassadó, Sheng For her third disc, Alisa Weilerstein goes it alone, with two classics of the solo cello repertoire from the early 20th century and ...
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Cellist Alisa Weilerstein receives $500,000 MacArthur Fellowship
Alisa Weilerstein will receive $500,000 in no-strings-attached support over the next five years after being named as a MacArthur Fellow. The 29-year-old cellist was awarded the so-called 'genius' grant by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Weilerstein was one of 22 individuals chosen as 2011 MacArthur ...
