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Summer Highlights: Chamber Music, Bach, and Tour with Payare

This summer, Alisa performs in numerous chamber and orchestral settings across the U.S. and Europe, beginning with duo recitals with her longtime friend and collaborator, pianist Inon Barnatan. Multiple programs focusing on transcriptions of works by Brahms and Shostakovich, as well as repertoire from their acclaimed albums together, are featured at the Ravinia Festival (June 7), the Minnesota Beethoven Festival (July 7), and the Aspen Music Festival and School (July 9).

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Alisa Weilerstein Performs FRAGMENTS Cleveland

After opening her spring season with a presentation of the first installment of her major new multisensory performance series, “FRAGMENTS,” in Carnegie Hall, MacArthur award-winning cellist Alisa Weilerstein takes the piece to the Severance Music Center’s Mandel Concert Hall in Cleveland (May 11). Perhaps her most ambitious and personal project to date, the new solo cello series sees her weave together the 36 movements of Bach’s solo cello suites with 27 new commissions to make six programs, each an hour long, for solo cello.

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Spring Preview 2023

Weilerstein looks forward to concerto performances of Strauss’s Don Quixote with the Montreal Symphony led by Rafael Payare (April 26 & 27); Barber’s Cello Concerto with the Cleveland Orchestra under the direction of Franz Welser-Möst(May 4 & 6); Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No. 2 with the Dresden Philharmonic and Thomas Dausgaard (June 10 & 11); and Ligeti’s Cello Concerto with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony led by Jakub Hrůša (June 14–16).

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