Joshua Weilerstein
| Joshua Weilerstein | |
|---|---|
| Born | Joshua Weilerstein 1987 Rochester, New York, United States |
| 🏫 Education | Hugh Wolff, Lucy Chapman |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| 👴 👵 Parent(s) | Donald Weilerstein, Vivian Hornik Weilerstein |
| Family | Alisa Weilerstein (sister) |
Joshua Weilerstein, born in 1987 in Rochester, New York, is an American violinist and conductor. He is the artistic director of the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne.[1] and assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.
Life
Weilerstein's parents are the "Cleveland Quartet"'s first violin Donald Weilerstein and the pianist Vivian Hornik Weilerstein. His sister, born in 1982, is the cellist Alisa Weilerstein. Joshua Weilerstein studied conducting with Hugh Wolff at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston and the violin with Lucy Chapman. In 2011, he received the Master of Music. Weilerstein attended, among others, David Zinman's master classes at the Aspen Music Festival. In 2007, Weilerstein was invited to play as the first violin by Gustavo Dudamel for a tour in America, as the first non-Venezuelan guest-member of the Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar.
In 2009, he debuted as conductor with the Göteborg Symphony Orchestra. In 2010, he conducted for the first time the Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar, with whom Alisa Weilerstein played the solo cello.
Joshua Weilerstein was appointed in 2011 with Case Scaglione as assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Nowadays he is the artistic director and conductor of the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne.
Weilerstein is the author and the speaker of the podcast "Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast"[2]
Distinctions
- 2009 : first prize and public prize of the Malko Competition.
- 2012 : Career Assistance Award of The Solti Foundation U.S.
External links
- Biography on intermusica.co.uk
- Biography on opus3artists.com
- Case Scaglione, Joshua Weilerstein Named Assistant Conductors of NY Philharmonic
- Podcast about classical music by Joshua Weilerstein
Notes and references
- ↑ Norddeutscher Rundfunk (Hrsg.): Programmheft für die Sinfoniekonzerte am 10. und 11. Januar 2019 der NDR Radiophilharmonie in Hannover, Hannover 2019, S. 5
- ↑ "Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast". Retrieved 2018-10-10.
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