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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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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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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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