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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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Launching into Fall 2021 with Performances of Bach and Joan Tower’s A New Day

This fall, Alisa Weilerstein launches the 2021/22 season with a solo recital of Bach and Golijov at London’s Wigmore Hall (September 13), followed by a program of Tchaikovsky and Haydn at the George Enescu Festival with conductor Horia Andreescu and the Radio Romania Chamber Orchestra (September 18).

At the end of September, Alisa travels to Locarno, Switzerland for the Settimane Musicali Ascona, performing Schubert’s Piano Trio No.

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Performances throughout Summer 2021

This summer, Alisa Weilerstein performs in many of the top classical music festivals across the United States and Germany. On June 19, Alisa performs at the Twenty Fast Forward Festival at Konfort Erfurt, performing Bach Cello Suites 1, 2 and 3. Later, on June 23, Alisa performs at the Ludwigsburg Festival, performing a program of Tavener, Janáček, Beethoven, and Shostakovich with Anna Prohaska (soprano), Veronika Eberle (violin) and Iddo Bar-Shaï (piano).

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