MacArthur award-winning cellist Alisa Weilerstein launches her summer season at the Aspen Music Festival, performing Parts 1 and 2 of “FRAGMENTS,” her acclaimed multisensory solo cello project, before opening the Colorado Music Festival in Boulder with two performances of Dvořák’s Cello Concerto under the baton of Music Director Peter Oundjian.

At the end of the summer she gives two more Dvořák concerto performances, this time led by Christoph Eschenbach in the final concerts of the Schleswig-Holstein Festival, where Weilerstein was the first cellist to win the Leonard Bernstein Award in 2006. Other summer highlights include a performance of the Elgar Cello Concerto in the final concert of Estonia’s Pärnu Music Festival, led by Paavo Järvi; chamber performances, masterclasses and Strauss’s Don Quixote at the Verbier Festival, conducted by Lahav Shani; and chamber music by Beethoven and Arensky with longtime collaborator Inon Barnatan at California’s La Jolla Music Society SummerFest, where the pianist serves as Music Director.

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