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Alisa Weilerstein’s January/February 2026 Highlights

To kick off the year, Alisa will perform Shostakovich’s First Cello Concerto with the Palm Beach Symphony (Jan 13). In Europe, she plays the Britten Cello Symphony with Alan Gilbert leading his own NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra (Jan 22–25) and a recital of Brahms and Prokofiev with Russian pianist Pavel Kolesnikov in Wigmore Hall (Jan 26). Alisa will then travel to Spain to perform the Lutosławski Cello Concerto with the Spanish National Orchestra under the baton of Krzysztof Urbański (Jan 30–Feb 1)

She returns to the Detroit Symphony for performances of Joan Tower’s A New Day, a piece co-commissioned by the orchestra, conducted by Music Director Jader Bignamini (Feb 13–15).

Tchaikovsky and Britten with Rafael Payare and San Diego Symphony

For her first performances of 2019, Alisa Weilerstein joins forces with husband Rafael Payare at the San Diego Symphony.

Alisa reprises the Tchaikovsky Variations on a Rococo Theme on January 10, as part of the San Diego Symphony’s “Hearing the Future” festival. The concert, Payare’s inaugural performance as the symphony’s Music Director Designate, also hears works by Mozart, Richard Strauss, and Mussorgsky.

Concerts with the Rotterdam Philharmonic

This November, Alisa Weilerstein joins the Rotterdam Philharmonic and recently-appointed music director Lahav Shani in Belgium and the Netherlands.

With the orchestra, Alisa performs Schumann’s transcendent cello concerto, in a program that also hears Schubert’s ‘Great’ Symphony No. 9 in C major.

Alisa performs on November 22 in Bruges, and on November 23 &

Alisa Weilerstein’s January/February 2026 Highlights

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Tchaikovsky and Britten with Rafael Payare and San Diego Symphony

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Concerts with the Rotterdam Philharmonic

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