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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’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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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.

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