Joshua Weilerstein
Joshua Weilerstein is an American conductor and violinist. Born in Rochester,
New York, in 1987, he studied violin with Lucy Chapman and conducting with Hugh
Wolff at the New England Conservatory, earning a Master of Music degree in 2011.
His career advanced when he served as assistant conductor of the New York
Philharmonic from 2012 to 2015, and as artistic director of the Orchestre de
Chambre de Lausanne from 2015 to 2021. He also launched the podcast Sticky
Notes: The Classical Music Podcast in 2017 to discuss classical music. He was
appointed chief conductor of the Aalborg Sy...
