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Weilerstein regularly appears alongside today's preeminent conductors with the major orchestras of the U.S., Europe, and Asia. Versatile across the cello repertoire's full breadth, she is a leading exponent of its greatest classics and an ardent proponent of contemporary music, for whom Pascal Dusapin, Osvaldo Golijov, Gabriela Ortiz, Matthias Pintscher, and Joan Tower have all written new concertos. With her multi-season solo project, FRAGMENTS, Weilerstein aims to reimagine the concert experience. This immersive, visceral six-program series sees her weave together the 36 movements of Bach's solo cello suites with 27 new commissions. She premiered the first two programs in Toronto in 2023, with subsequent performances in Tanglewood, Santa Barbara, San Diego, Cleveland and at New York's Carnegie Hall. This season she performs them at Boston's Sanders Theatre, the Maison symphonique de Montréal, La Jolla's Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center, and Los Angeles's Walt Disney Concert Hall, before premiering FRAGMENTS 4 at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and touring all six programs in seasons to come. An authority on Bach's music for unaccompanied cello, Weilerstein has released a best-selling recording of his solo suites and deconstructed his G-major Prelude in a video viewed more than 2.2 million times. Her discography also includes chart-topping albums and the winner of BBC Music's “Recording of the Year” award.

Additionally this season, she collaborates with Alisa Weilerstein on Fragments, a groundbreaking, multi-year project for solo cello that weaves together the 36 movements of Bach's solo cello suites with 27 newly commissioned works; and tours Europe with her production of David Lang's prisoner of the state --which was premiered by the New York Philharmonic in 2020 and was subsequently performed by BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican.

Past projects also include a live tour of Esperanza Spalding's album 12 Little Spells; and DIORAMA, an art installation at the I.O.U. in San Francisco. Ms. Pulitzer has directed projects with the Los Angeles Philharmonic including John Adams' Nixon in China and Leonard Bernstein's Mass, the latter of which was also staged at the Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center. She has also directed John Adams' The Gospel According to the Other Mary at the San Francisco Symphony, and Lucia di Lammermoor and Judas Maccabaeus at Los Angeles Opera.

Ms. Pulitzer directed Wagner's Flying Dutchman at San Francisco Opera in 2013 and returned to serve as Artistic Curator of SF Opera Lab, an experimental chamber opera two-year program from 2015-17, where she developed the mission, brand, and programming. She has directed multiple productions at West Edge Opera, among them Alban Berg's Lulu, Thomas Ades' Powder Her Face, and Luca Francesconi's Quartett. She has collaborated on next-generation projects with Washington National Opera, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Boston Lyric Opera, Opera Omaha, Opera Theater of Saint Louis, and the Canadian Opera Company. Theater directing credits include work with Impact Theater, Cutting Ball, Riverside Theater, and Ensemble Theater Company.

Ms. Pulitzer was honored with the Opera America Success Award for her libretto Dream of the Pacific, an opera composed by Stephen Mager, commissioned and performed by Opera Theatre of St. Louis. She holds an MA from Columbia in Directing. Born in Boston and raised in St. Louis and Marin, Ms. Pulitzer also serves as board vice president of the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, which advances experimentation in art curation, installation and live programming.

Johann Sebastian Bach's Matthew Passion with the Berlin Philharmonic at the Park Avenue Armory directed by Peter Sellars; Claude Vivier's Kopernicus at Theatre Cardin in Paris, directed by Peter Sellars; John Adam's Gospel According to the Other Mary at the San Francisco Symphony directed by Elkhanah Pulitzer; Sufjan Stevens's Round Up at the Brooklyn Academy of Music; Messiaen's Des Canyon Aux Etoiles with the St. Louis Symphony, directed by Deb O'Grady, which was seen throughout the United States, at the Sydney Opera House and the Barbican; and The Indian Queen in concert with MusicAeterna, directed by Robert Castro which toured Germany. Reiser also regularly designs lighting for SF Symphony's Sound Box concerts. He received his bachelor's degree from Ohio Wesleyan University and his Master of Fine Arts from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.

Molly has designed operas Elixir D'Amour (2017); Il Due Figaro (2018); and Cold Mountain (2019) at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, Amadigi (2016), Orphée (2020) at UCLA, Rev 23 (2020) at Prototype Festival, and the Pulitzer prize winning p r i s m (2018) in Los Angeles, New York, Sao Paolo Brazil, and the Kennedy Center. For screen Molly designed the opera miniseries desert in (2021) and feature Mirror Flores (2021). In 2022 she designed La Clemenza di Tito at The San Francisco Conservatory of Music; The Tragedy of Carmen at Velaa Island in the Maldives; The Central Park Five at Long Beach Opera; Onegin at Music Academy of the West; and Il Due Figaro at The Handel and Haydn Society in Boston. Most recently, Molly designed the world premiere of Kate Soper's The Romance of the Rose (2023) as well as The Feast (2023), a collaboration between Long Beach Opera and Martha Graham Dance Company.

Over her thirty-year tenure at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Hanako emerged as a key leader in Lincoln Center's evolution from classical music presenter to commissioner and producer of multidisciplinary presentations, involving music, dance, theater, film, and the spoken word. As Director of Music Programming, Hanako was a co-creator of the White Light Festival, a force behind the revitalization of the Mostly Mozart Festival, and curator/ producer of the long-standing Great Performers concert series. Throughout, her cultivation and advocacy of a wide range of artists, her desire for new collaborations, and her commitment to making the performances unforgettable have been her signature.

She is currently a board member of the International Society for the Performing Arts (ISPA), a global association of arts management leaders, who come together with the shared goal of strengthening and developing the arts internationally.