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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);

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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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