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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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Appearing in The Power of Us with JDRF


Alisa Weilerstein launches her new role as Celebrity Ambassador of JDRF, the juvenile diabetes research foundation, with a special guest appearance in The Power of Us, the organization’s first national telecast. Having been diagnosed with type one diabetes at nine years old, the cellist introduces her own filmed performance of the prelude from Bach’s First Cello Suite, highlighting a star-studded evening hosted by CNN correspondent Cristina Alesci that will stream on Facebook and YouTube.

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Live-streamed Concert with the NDR Elbphilharmonie


On June 19, Alisa Weilerstein joins conductor Alan Gilbert and members of the NDR Elbphilharmonie for a live-streamed concert from Hamburg, Germany. Alisa performs Tchaikovsky’s beloved Rococo Variations in a program that also include Bartok’s Divertimento, and Hadyn’s Symphony no. 92. 

This concert will be streamed live from the Elbphilharmonie at 8 pm CEST/ 2 pm ET on 

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