Carnegie Hall, Atlanta Symphony and Staatskapelle Berlin, and Fall Chamber performances
Following the UK Premieres of FRAGMENTS 1 & 2, Alisa performs FRAGMENTS 4 – Labyrinth in San Diego on October 29 as a prelude to its debut in Carnegie Hall on November 7. It was just this past summer that Alisa first performed all six parts of the project in one place, at Spoleto Festival USA. In its overview of the festival, Classical Voice North America declared Weilerstein’s performances to collectively be “the most awesome classical-music event this season,” calling them “a creation you literally had to see.”
Alisa opens the season with Atlanta Sympony, where she plays the Elgar Cello Concerto with Music Director Nathalie Stutzmann on October 3–5, and she plays the Britten Cello Symphony with Alan Gilbert leading the Staatskapelle Berlin on November 24.
Following up on their 2024 recording of the Brahms Cello Sonatas, Alisa joins good friend and collaborator Inon Barnatan to perform the works in Georgia this November 16. The cellist’s Southbank Centre residency will also features pianist Inon and violinist Stefan Jackiw, who join her for a program comprising Rachmaninov’s Trio Elegiaque No.1, Ravel’s Piano Trio – celebrating the composer’s 150th birthday – and Beethoven’s “Archduke” Trio on November 30, with an additional performance in Bristol, UK on November 28. The three musicians’ 2019 recording of Beethoven’s Triple Concerto with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields and Alan Gilbert came in for high praise from The Arts Fuse, which wrote: “The solo ensemble plays exceptionally well together, blending beautifully and graciously ceding the solo spotlight among themselves.”