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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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Debuts in Leipzig and Amsterdam

As one of today’s leading exponents of the orchestral cello repertoire, this fall Alisa Weilerstein debuts with two of the world’s foremost ensembles.

She plays Barber’s Cello Concerto under Franz Welser-Möst for her first appearances with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra on October 24 and 25, and revisits Matthias Pintscher’s un despertar (2017), one of the first concertos written for her, for her debut with Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, under the composer-conductor’s leadership November 7 and 9.

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Blockbuster Season Opens with Kansas City Symphony, San Diego Symphony, World Premiere with LA Philharmonic and a Return to the Berlin Philharmonic

This fall, Alisa Weilerstein performs at the season-opening concert of the Kansas City Symphony. Beginning with an evening of chamber music with members of the orchestra (Sep 12), she will then perform Dvořák’s Cello Concerto with the Symphony later in the week (Sep 13–15). These Kansas City Symphony concerts inaugurate the tenure of incoming Music Director Matthias Pintscher, who is not only the composer of un despertar but also a contributor to FRAGMENTS.

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