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Dzonot Concerto with Rafael Payare and the San Diego Symphony, and FRAGMENTS in Germany


To end the season, Alisa reprises Gabriela Ortiz’s Dzonot  concerto for the second time this spring with Rafael Payare conducting the San Diego Symphony (May 9–10).

Premiered with Gustavo Dudamel leading the Los Angeles Philharmonic in fall of 2024, was released last summer on the composer’s GRAMMY-winning album Yanga, when Gramophone reported: “Weilerstein and the Los Angelenos play Dzonot with such conviction and technical mastery that I did a double take when I read in the booklet that this recording is taken from the premiere performances.”

Weilerstein brings FRAGMENTS to Germany, performing FRAGMENTS 3 – Emergence at Germany’s stARTfestival in Leverkusen (May 19);

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Alisa performs Bach at the Elbphilharmonie


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.

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Alisa performs at Aldeburgh Festival


This June, Alisa Weilerstein performs at the Snape Maltings Festival in Aldeburgh, UK.

On June 19 & 21, she performs the Bach cello suites in Blythburgh (Suites 1, 3, 5, & 6) and Suffolk (Suites 2 & 4).

Alisa joins forces with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra to perform Thomas Larcher’s Ouroboros, under the baton of Edward Gardner (June 23).

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