News | Alisa Weilerstein

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).

Out Now: Transfigured Night

Available now: Alisa Weilerstein’s latest album Transfigured Night, released on PENTATONE.

Transfigured Night explores the stylistic contrasts of the First and Second Viennese Schools, by combining Haydn’s first and second cello concertos with Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht.

Through Transfigured Night‘s unprecedented musical pairing, Alisa not only invites listeners to a new perspective on both Viennese composers, but also takes her own personal journey back in time to the city from which her grandparents fled in 1938. Read More

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New Album: Transfigured Night

On August 24, Alisa Weilerstein releases Transfigured Night, her first album with PENTATONE.

Transfigured Night pairs masterworks of the First and Second Viennese Schools – Haydn’s first and second cello concertos, along with Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht, from which the album takes its title.

The album marks the first collaboration of Weilerstein’s new multi-season role as Artistic Partner of Norway’s celebrated string orchestra, the Trondheim Soloists, led by Artistic Director and concertmaster Geir Inge Lotsberg.