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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).

Concerts with hr-Sinfonieorchester this January

This January, Alisa Weilerstein joins Andrés Orozco-Estrada and the hr-Sinfonieorchester in Frankfurt.

On January 16 & 17, Alisa reprises Thomas Larcher’s Ouroboros with the orchestra, named for the mythical symbol which bites its own tail as a sign of eternal recurrence.

Also on the program is Haydn’s Symphony No. 82 “The Bear,” as well as two pieces by Richard Strauss: his epic and exciting tone poem Don Juan, as well as his suite from the opera Der Rosenkavalier. Read More

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Performing Elgar with the London Symphony Orchestra

This December, Alisa Weilerstein joins the London Symphony Orchestra and François-Xavier Roth for her final performance of 2019 to perform Elgar’s lyrical and passionate Cello Concerto.

In a performance that marks 100 years since the concerto’s premiere with the LSO, on December 19, Alisa spotlights the work with the orchestra at the Barbican Hall.

The evening also hears the world premiere of Sophya Polevaya’s Spellbound Tableaux, along with Bartók’s Miraculous Mandarin.