Alisa Weilerstein heads to Munich to premiere Thomas Larcher’s cello concerto, returning into darkness, with the Bavarian Symphony Radio Orchestra (BSRO) conducted by Alan Gilbert (June 5, 6). Larcher, whose music has been praised as “one of this century’s wonders” (The Times, UK), composed the work for Alisa, who gave the premiere this past March with the co-commissioning New York Philharmonic.
Last season, Weilerstein introduced her major new multisensory performance series, “FRAGMENTS,” in Toronto, Southern California, Carnegie Hall, Cleveland, and Tanglewood. The series weaves together the 36 movements of Bach’s solo cello suites with 27 new commissions to make six unique programs, each an hour long, for solo cello. Tracing a powerful and wholly original emotional arc, each program embraces a wide variety of compositional voices, the composers being diverse with respect to age, race, gender, geography, compositional approach, musical style and stage of career (see below for complete list).
Alisa Weilerstein rejoins Rafael Payare with the San Diego Symphony, performing Dvořák’s Cello Concerto on a tour that culminates at Carnegie Hall (Oct 6–13). She then joins pianist Inon Barnatan and violinist James Ehnes where she gives all-Schubert performances in Richmond, Virginia (Oct 27) and Seattle (Oct 29).
The fall season culminates with four performances of her acclaimed multisensory solo cello project “FRAGMENTS”, with performances at Boston’s Celebrity Series (Nov 5), the Maison symphonique de Montréal (Nov 10), the California Festival in Walt Disney Hall in Los Angeles (Nov 15) and the La Jolla Music Society (Nov 16).