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Blockbuster Season Opens with Kansas City Symphony, San Diego Symphony, World Premiere with LA Philharmonic and a Return to the Berlin Philharmonic


This fall, Alisa Weilerstein performs at the season-opening concert of the Kansas City Symphony. Beginning with an evening of chamber music with members of the orchestra (Sep 12), she will then perform Dvořák’s Cello Concerto with the Symphony later in the week (Sep 13–15). These Kansas City Symphony concerts inaugurate the tenure of incoming Music Director Matthias Pintscher, who is not only the composer of un despertar but also a contributor to FRAGMENTS.

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Summer 2024: FRAGMENTS 1 & 2, Dvořák, Barber and Elgar concertos, Verbier and Schleswig-Holstein festivals & more


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.

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