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Summer Highlights: Chamber Music, Bach, and Tour with Payare

This summer, Alisa performs in numerous chamber and orchestral settings across the U.S. and Europe, beginning with duo recitals with her longtime friend and collaborator, pianist Inon Barnatan. Multiple programs focusing on transcriptions of works by Brahms and Shostakovich, as well as repertoire from their acclaimed albums together, are featured at the Ravinia Festival (June 7), the Minnesota Beethoven Festival (July 7), and the Aspen Music Festival and School (July 9).

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This Spring: Larcher World Premiere with New York Phil and Bavarian Radio Symphony

This spring, Alisa Weilerstein gives the world and European premieres of Austrian composer Thomas Larcher’s new concerto – a co-commission of the New York Philharmonic and Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra – with the New York Philharmonic under Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider and the Bavarian Radio Symphony under Alan Gilbert, respectively.

This performance marks the third new concerto for Alisa this season, following Gabriela Ortiz’s Dzonot and Richard Blackford’s The Recovery of Paradise.

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“FRAGMENTS” premieres at Charleston’s Spoleto Festival

Alisa Weilerstein is performing the first rendition of the complete cycle of her “FRAGMENTS” project at the 2025 Spoleto Festival USA. Having enjoyed a close relationship with the Charleston-based festival for the past 15 years, she will give the world premiere performances of FRAGMENTS 5 & 6 at Spoleto during a weeklong residency that sees her perform all six programs of the series in succession for the first time (May 27–June 1).

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