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Fall 2026-27 Highlights

MacArthur Award-winning cellist Alisa Weilerstein’s groundbreaking six-part multisensory solo cello project, “FRAGMENTS” – the focus of a cover feature in the October 2025 issue of The Strad – continues with a season of notable milestones in 2026–27. After recent back-to-back performances of FRAGMENTS 1 – Wonder and FRAGMENTS 2 – Tumult in both Taipei and Shanghai – marking the first Asian performances of the series – she completes a cycle of premieres that have spanned several seasons in Carnegie’s Zankel Hall with FRAGMENTS 6 – Radiance (Nov 5).

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Carnegie Hall, Atlanta Symphony and Staatskapelle Berlin, and Fall Chamber performances

Following the UK Premieres of FRAGMENTS 1 & 2, Alisa performs FRAGMENTS 4 – Labyrinth in San Diego on October 29 as a prelude to its debut in Carnegie Hall on November 7. It was just this past summer that Alisa first performed all six parts of the project in one place, at Spoleto Festival USA. In its overview of the festival, Classical Voice North America declared Weilerstein’s performances to collectively be “the most awesome classical-music event this season,” calling them “a creation you literally had to see.”

Alisa opens the season with Atlanta Sympony, where she plays the Elgar Cello Concerto with Music Director Nathalie Stutzmann on October 3–5, and she plays the Britten Cello Symphony with Alan Gilbert leading the Staatskapelle Berlin on November 24.

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Alisa Weilerstein’s 2025–26: FRAGMENTS UK and European debuts

After performing FRAGMENTS 1 – Wonder at Rotterdam’s de Doelen this September, Weilerstein launches her 2025–26 residency at London’s Southbank Centre with a reprise of that program as well as FRAGMENTS 2 – Tumult, in afternoon and evening performances on the same day.

Other FRAGMENTS performances this season include FRAGMENTS 4 – Labyrinth in San Diego in October as a prelude to its debut in Carnegie Hall on November 7;

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