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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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Winter Highlights: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, and Florida tour with the Detroit Symphony

Weilerstein begins the Winter season making music with her husband, Venezuelan conductor Rafael Payare, where she will perform Barber’s Cello Concerto with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic (Jan 31 & Feb 1). Soon thereafter she gives three performances of Haydn’s Concerto in C with the Boston Symphony led byKarina Canellakis (Feb 8–10).

She is then going on tour in Florida performing Elgar’s Cello Concerto with the Detroit Symphony and Music Director Jader Bignamini, with performances inGainesville (Feb 13), Miami (Feb 15), West Palm Beach (Feb 17-18), Sarasota(Feb 19), and Vero Beach (Feb 20).

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“FRAGMENTS” premiere and performances, chamber music

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).

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