Immediately after completing his Bachelor of Music in violin performance at the New England Conservatory in May 2009, twenty-one-year-old Joshua Weilerstein was named the winner of the international 2009 Malko Competition for Young Conductors in Copenhagen. His first-prize honors include conducting engagements over three years with such major Scandinavian orchestras as the Oslo Philharmonic, the Helsinki Philharmonic, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, and the Danish National Symphony, among others. In June 2009, in the first of this series of Malko engagements, Mr. Weilerstein made his professional conducting debut with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra.  In the 2009-2010 season he leads the South Jutland Symphony Orchestra in Denmark and the Danish National Symphony Orchestra.
 
In the summer of 2009, Mr. Weilerstein participated in the prestigious American Academy of Conducting at the Aspen Music Festival, where he studied with David Zinman and was awarded the Robert J. Harth Conductor Prize. In September 2009 he resumed his studies at New England Conservatory, pursuing dual Master of Music degrees in orchestral conducting with Hugh Wolff and in violin with Lucy Chapman. As an NEC junior and senior, Mr. Weilerstein initiated and organized several orchestral groups, which he rehearsed and conducted in concert, both in the NEC Preparatory division and in the conservatory.
 
In 2007, Mr. Weilerstein was invited to appear as violin soloist with the Símon Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela.  Continuing his association with that organization, in 2007 he was also invited to become its first non-Venezuelan guest member, joining the first violin section on the orchestra's acclaimed American tour with Music Director Gustavo Dudamel. Currently living in Boston, he serves as concertmaster of Discovery Ensemble, a Boston-based chamber orchestra established by young musicians dedicated to bringing music to children through interactive workshops in schools and community concerts.

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