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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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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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