Alisa Weilerstein heads to Munich to premiere Thomas Larcher’s cello concerto, returning into darkness, with the Bavarian Symphony Radio Orchestra (BSRO) conducted by Alan Gilbert (June 5, 6). Larcher, whose music has been praised as “one of this century’s wonders” (The Times, UK), composed the work for Alisa, who gave the premiere this past March with the co-commissioning New York Philharmonic.
This summer, Alisa Weilerstein reprises the Dvořák concerto in her debut with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra.
On July 15, Alisa joins the orchestra, which celebrates its 140th anniversary this season, and Music Director Long Yu for the closing night of the annual Shanghai MISA (Music in the Summer Air) Festival.
In August, they embark on a three-city, two-continent tour, traveling to the Wolf Trap Festival in Virginia (Aug 14), the Ravinia Festival in Illinois (Aug 16), and Scotland’s Edinburgh Festival (Aug 19).
This summer, Alisa Weilerstein makes her way to the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg.
Following her performances of the complete Bach cello suites this spring in Berkeley, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, the Aldeburgh Festival, and at Paris’s Festival Saint-Denis, Alisa brings this program to the Elbphilharmonie’s acoustically and architecturally spectacular Grosser Saal on July 4, as part of the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival.