News | Alisa Weilerstein

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).

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 &

Fall 2026-27 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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