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Alisa Weilerstein’s January/February 2026 Highlights

To kick off the year, Alisa will perform Shostakovich’s First Cello Concerto with the Palm Beach Symphony (Jan 13). In Europe, she plays the Britten Cello Symphony with Alan Gilbert leading his own NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra (Jan 22–25) and a recital of Brahms and Prokofiev with Russian pianist Pavel Kolesnikov in Wigmore Hall (Jan 26). Alisa will then travel to Spain to perform the Lutosławski Cello Concerto with the Spanish National Orchestra under the baton of Krzysztof Urbański (Jan 30–Feb 1)

She returns to the Detroit Symphony for performances of Joan Tower’s A New Day, a piece co-commissioned by the orchestra, conducted by Music Director Jader Bignamini (Feb 13–15).

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What do you get when you combine contemporary music, Bach and theatre? Alisa Weilerstein’s ‘Fragments’

The world-renowned American cellist brings her epically groundbreaking project to Toronto’s Koerner Hall on Jan. 28.

“Weilerstein is justly proud of the fact that her diverse group of composers includes nine different nationalities, is gender-balanced, and includes both well-established and emerging artists ranging in age from 26 to 84. The result is an invigorating range of styles.”

Read the full article here.

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FRAGMENTS, Solo Bach, Hamburg’s NDR & More in 2022-23

Alisa Weilerstein Launches “FRAGMENTS” with Premieres in Toronto, California & at NY’s Carnegie Hall; Plays Solo Bach at Wigmore Hall; & Returns to NY Phil, Cleveland Orch, Hamburg’s NDR & Others in 2022-23

Early next year, Alisa Weilerstein launches “FRAGMENTS” – her new, multisensory solo cello project that weaves together new commissions and unaccompanied Bach – with premieres at Toronto’s Koerner Hall (Jan 28), in Southern California (March 10–14) and at New York’s Carnegie Hall (April 1).

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