News | Alisa Weilerstein

Dzonot Concerto with Rafael Payare and the San Diego Symphony, and FRAGMENTS in Germany

To end the season, Alisa reprises Gabriela Ortiz’s Dzonot concerto for the second time this spring with Rafael Payare conducting the San Diego Symphony (May 9–10).

Premiered with Gustavo Dudamel leading the Los Angeles Philharmonic in fall of 2024, was released last summer on the composer’s GRAMMY-winning album Yanga, when Gramophone reported: “Weilerstein and the Los Angelenos play Dzonot with such conviction and technical mastery that I did a double take when I read in the booklet that this recording is taken from the premiere performances.”

Weilerstein brings FRAGMENTS to Germany, performing FRAGMENTS 3 – Emergence at Germany’s stARTfestival in Leverkusen (May 19);

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.