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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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Discussing Bach on “Live with Carnegie Hall”

On May 28, Alisa Weilerstein joins Carnegie Hall for its new online series, Live with Carnegie Hall. On this episode, Alisa joins Carnegie Hall’s Executive and Artistic Director Clive Gillinson and WQXR’s John Schaefer for a discussion on the importance of Bach, as well as her approach to the suites both in the recording studio and at home. This episode follows the wildly successful release of Alisa’s new album, 

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Bach Cello Suites Praised as “A Performance That Sings”

Critics have praised Alisa Weilerstein’s “Bach Cello Suites” album, which was released on Pentatone earlier this spring. The Guardian’s Erica Jeal reviewed the album, saying: 

“The exceptional cellist’s music emerges with sunlit clarity in … a performance that unfolds at its own pace and in its own space, inward-looking yet confident – one captured at exactly the right time.

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