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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).

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December Chamber Performances

A dedicated chamber artist, this winter Alisa partners with the Ariel Quartet for programs juxtaposing Schubert’s String Quintet in C with original folk-themed works and transcriptions, in concerts presented by the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor (Dec 12) and the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society (Dec 15).

For tickets and the full calendar, click here.

Dec 12 &

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All-Brahms Album Release and Duo recitals with Inon Barnatan

On November 15, Pentatone’s physical and digital release of Alisa’s new recording with her regular collaborator, Israeli pianist Inon Barnatan, with whom she shares “a dazzling technique and a level of communication and expression so clear that they can practically finish each other’s phrases” (Boston Classical Review).

An all-Brahms collection, the new album captures their accounts of the German composer’s two sonatas for cello, as well as their own arrangement for cello of his First Violin Sonata.

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