{{short description|American violinist and pedagogue (born 1940)}} {{Infobox academic | name = Donald Weilerstein | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1940}} | birth_place = Washington, D.C., U.S. | education = Juilliard School (BM, MM) | workplaces = Juilliard School<br>New England Conservatory of Music | children = Alisa Weilerstein, Joshua Weilerstein | spouse = Vivian Hornik Weilerstein | discipline = Music | sub_discipline = Violin performance }}
'''Donald Weilerstein''' (born 1940) is an American violinist and pedagogue.
== Early life and education == Weilerstein was born in Washington, D.C., and raised in Berkeley, California. He began playing the violin at the age of four and earned a Bachelor of Music and Master of Music from the Juilliard School.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2015-11-19 |title=Donald and Vivian Weilerstein |url=http://journal.juilliard.edu/journal/1512/portraits/weilersteins |access-date=2022-07-03 |website=The Juilliard School |language=en}}</ref>
== Career == In 1969, he founded the Cleveland Quartet, becoming its first violinist, a position he held until 1989.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.clevelandquartet.com/html/cqmembers/Weilerstein.html |title=Don Weilerstein, Violin 1969-1989 |website=Cleveland Quartet Website |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20140623001927/http://www.clevelandquartet.com/html/cqmembers/Weilerstein.html |archivedate=2014-06-23 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Kozinn |first=Allan |date=1978-08-06 |title=Four 'Clevelanders' Who Adopted Beethoven |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1978/08/06/archives/four-clevelanders-who-adopted-beethoven-four-clevelanders-who.html |access-date=2022-07-03 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Since 2004, he has been the Dorothy Richard Starling Chair in Violin Studies at New England Conservatory of Music and since 2001, he is a faculty member at the Juilliard School.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Donald Weilerstein |url=https://necmusic.edu/faculty/donald-weilerstein |access-date=2022-07-03 |website=necmusic.edu |language=en}}</ref> His students have won first prize in the Yehudi Menuhin International Competition for Young Violinists and first prize in the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thestrad.com/latest/news/violinists-xiang-yu-and-kerson-leong-triumph-at-menuhin-competition |title=Violinists Xiang Yu and Kerson Leong triumph at Menuhin Competition |access-date=2014-06-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714133046/http://www.thestrad.com/latest/news/violinists-xiang-yu-and-kerson-leong-triumph-at-menuhin-competition |archive-date=2014-07-14 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.violin.org/1998-laureates |title=1998 Laureates |website=International Violin Competition of Indianapolis}}</ref> In addition, he is a member of the Weilerstein Trio with his daughter, Alisa Weilerstein, and wife, Vivian Hornik Weilerstein. Weilerstein is a fellow of the Music Academy of the West.<ref name="MAotW alumni"> {{cite web |title=Alumni Roster |url=http://www.musicacademy.org/school/alumni/alumni-roster/violin |url-status=dead |website=musicacademy.org |accessdate=19 January 2020 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120605021001/http://www.musicacademy.org/school/alumni/alumni-roster/violin |archivedate=5 June 2012}}</ref> His son, Joshua Weilerstein, has guest conducted with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.
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