World famous cellist, 22 year- old Alisa Weilerstein, will perform this Sunday, Feb. 29th, at 5:30 p.m. as part of this year's Shriver Hall Concert Series.
Preceeding the show at 4:30 p.m., Paul Matthews from Peabody will deliver a lecture in the Clipper Room in Shriver. Weilerstein's program with piano accompanist Adam Neiman will include Beethoven's "Seven Variations on "Bei Mannern,' from Mozart's "The Magic Flute,'" Brahms' "Sonata in F major," De Falla's "Suite Populaire Espagnole" and Prokofiev's "Sonata in C Major."
The young cellist has won unanimous praise for a playing style that combines natural virtuosity with impassioned musicianship. Born in 1982, she began playing the cello at age four and a half and performed her first public concert just six months later.
Since then, Ms. Weilerstein has performed with symphonies around the world. Performing at New York's Carnegie Hall at the young age of 15 and subsequent performances with the Puerto Rico, Barcelona, New York Youth and Cleveland Symphonies have earned Ms. Weilerstein immense fame.
In addition to solo performances all over the world, Weilerstein regularly plays with her parents, Donald and Vivian Weilerstein, as a part of the Weilerstein Trio, a group in high demand throughout the country. She first performed with them at the age of six at the Round Top Festival in Texas. Since then, the Trio has performed across the nation and in Canada.
Additionally, Weilerstein has played in the company of many of the most famous classical musicians of this century, the likes of which includeYo-Yo Ma, David Finckel, Paul Katz, Lynn Harrell and Dorothy DeLay.
Most recently, Weilerstein was the recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant and was selected for the prestigious European Concert Hall Organization's "Rising Stars" recital series and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center's Chamber Music Society Two.
Tickets are $17 for students and $8 beginning at 4:30 p.m. the day of the performance, accounting for the student rush. For more information, call (410)-516-7164 or visit the Shriver Hall Concert Series online at http://www.shriverconcerts.org/.
