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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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Complete Bach Cello Suites in Barcelona

This winter, Alisa Weilerstein performs the complete Bach cello suites at the Palau de la Música Catalana.

The Barcelona performance takes place at the foundation’s Concert Hall on December 12.

Watch Alisa play the Gigue from the Third Cello Suite:

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November Performances with the New York Philharmonic

This fall, Alisa Weilerstein returns to Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Hall for concerts with the New York Philharmonic.

From November 21-23, Alisa and the Philharmonic join forces for Saint-Saëns’s First Cello Concerto, under the direction of Jakub Hrůša. The program also hears Borodin’s Second Symphony and Dvořák’s Sixth Symphony.

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