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This Spring: Larcher World Premiere with New York Phil and Bavarian Radio Symphony

This spring, Alisa Weilerstein gives the world and European premieres of Austrian composer Thomas Larcher’s new concerto – a co-commission of the New York Philharmonic and Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra – with the New York Philharmonic under Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider and the Bavarian Radio Symphony under Alan Gilbert, respectively.

This performance marks the third new concerto for Alisa this season, following Gabriela Ortiz’s Dzonot and Richard Blackford’s The Recovery of Paradise.

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Schumann with the Houston Symphony

This February, Alisa Weilerstein performs in the Houston Symphony Orchestra’s two-week long Schumann Festival.

Alisa performs with Yooshin Song, violin; Joan DerHovsepian, viola; and Scott Holshouser, piano on February 14 for Schumann’s revolutionary Piano Quartet. On February 15 and 16, Alisa joins the full orchestra and maestro Andrés Orozco-Estrada in performing Schumann’s intensely lyrical Cello Concerto in A minor. 

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Tokyo Performances with NHK Symphony Orchestra and Rafael Payare

On January 31 and February 1, Alisa Weilerstein travels to Tokyo where she joins the NHK Symphony Orchestra and Rafael Payare to perform Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No. 2. Also featured on the all-Shostakovich program are his Ballet Suite No. 1 for orchestra and Symphony No. 5 in D minor.

Click here for tickets and here to listen to her 2016 Decca recording of the piece.

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