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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 in Austria with Tonkünstler-Orchester


This April, Alisa Weilerstein makes appearances with the Tonkünstler-Orchester in Austria.

On April 13 & 14, Alisa makes her Musikverein debut with the orchestra and conductor Fabien Gabel, performing Bloch’s Schelomo: Rhapsodie Hébraïque. The programs also hear Richard Strauss’s Love scene from Feuersnot and Korngold’s Sinfonietta.

Alisa then performs with the orchestra at their second home of Festspielhaus St.

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Press Release: This Spring, Alisa Weilerstein Tours “Transfigured Nights” Chamber Program in the U.S., Plays Solo Bach in Berkeley, Guangzhou, Paris and Hamburg


This spring, Alisa Weilerstein indulges her love of the intimate subtleties of chamber music on a U.S. tour with old and new friends: her frequent collaborator, pianist Inon Barnatan; Armenian violinist Sergey Khachatryan; and Scottish percussionist Colin Currie. Their program centers on a piano trio arrangement of Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht, along with Beethoven’s “Ghost” Trio and an arrangement of Shostakovich’s Symphony No.

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