“Speaking Soundly” Podcast
On December 24, Speaking Soundly podcast, hosted by Met Opera Principal Trumpet David Krauss, re-released Alisa’s July 2023 interview.
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Summer 2024: FRAGMENTS 1 & 2, Dvořák, Barber and Elgar concertos, Verbier and Schleswig-Holstein festivals & more
MacArthur award-winning cellist Alisa Weilerstein launches her summer season at the Aspen Music Festival, performing Parts 1 and 2 of “FRAGMENTS,” her acclaimed multisensory solo cello project, before opening the Colorado Music Festival in Boulder with two performances of Dvořák’s Cello Concerto under the baton of Music Director Peter Oundjian.
At the end of the summer she gives two more Dvořák concerto performances, this time led by Christoph Eschenbach in the final concerts of the Schleswig-Holstein Festival, where Weilerstein was the first cellist to win the Leonard Bernstein Award in 2006.
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FRAGMENTS 4 World Premiere
Known for her “stylistic sensitivity, verve and spontaneous delight in discovery” (The Guardian), Weilerstein introduced her major new multisensory performance series, “FRAGMENTS,” last season in Toronto, Southern California, Carnegie Hall, Cleveland, and Tanglewood. The series weaves together the 36 movements of Bach’s solo cello suites with 27 new commissions to make six unique programs, each an hour long, for solo cello.