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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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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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