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Summer Highlights: Chamber Music, Bach, and Tour with Payare


This summer, Alisa performs in numerous chamber and orchestral settings across the U.S. and Europe, beginning with duo recitals with her longtime friend and collaborator, pianist Inon Barnatan. Multiple programs focusing on transcriptions of works by Brahms and Shostakovich, as well as repertoire from their acclaimed albums together, are featured at the Ravinia Festival (June 7), the Minnesota Beethoven Festival (July 7), and the Aspen Music Festival and School (July 9).

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Barber Concerto with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra


This February, Alisa Weilerstein travels to Michigan, where she joins the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and John Storgårds in performing Samuel Barber’s technically demanding yet intensely lyrical Cello Concerto. The concert also features Beethoven’s beloved Symphony no. 6 “Pastoral,” as well as Outi Tarkiainen’s recent work Midnight Sun.

Click here for tickets to the performances on February 21, 22, and 23.

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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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