Winter Highlights: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, and Florida tour with the Detroit Symphony


Weilerstein begins the Winter season making music with her husband, Venezuelan conductor Rafael Payare, where she will perform Barber’s Cello Concerto with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic (Jan 31 & Feb 1). Soon thereafter she gives three performances of Haydn’s Concerto in C with the Boston Symphony led byKarina Canellakis (Feb 8–10).

She is then going on tour in Florida performing Elgar’s Cello Concerto with the Detroit Symphony and Music Director Jader Bignamini, with performances inGainesville (Feb 13), Miami (Feb 15), West Palm Beach (Feb 17-18), Sarasota(Feb 19), and Vero Beach (Feb 20). The tour culminates with two concerts back in Detroit (Feb 24-25). Her recording of the Elgar Concerto, one of the most beloved works in the genre, for Decca won BBC Music Magazine’s “Concerto of the Year” and coveted “Recording of the Year” awards in 2014.