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Summer Highlights: Chamber Music, Bach, and Tour with Payare


This summer, Alisa performs in numerous chamber and orchestral settings across the U.S. and Europe, beginning with duo recitals with her longtime friend and collaborator, pianist Inon Barnatan. Multiple programs focusing on transcriptions of works by Brahms and Shostakovich, as well as repertoire from their acclaimed albums together, are featured at the Ravinia Festival (June 7), the Minnesota Beethoven Festival (July 7), and the Aspen Music Festival and School (July 9).

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Performances with Shanghai Symphony in China, the US, and Europe this summer


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).

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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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