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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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Summer 2024: FRAGMENTS 1 & 2, Dvořák, Barber and Elgar concertos, Verbier and Schleswig-Holstein festivals & more

MacArthur award-winning cellist Alisa Weilerstein launches her summer season at the Aspen Music Festival, performing Parts 1 and 2 of “FRAGMENTS,” her acclaimed multisensory solo cello project, before opening the Colorado Music Festival in Boulder with two performances of Dvořák’s Cello Concerto under the baton of Music Director Peter Oundjian.

At the end of the summer she gives two more Dvořák concerto performances, this time led by Christoph Eschenbach in the final concerts of the Schleswig-Holstein Festival, where Weilerstein was the first cellist to win the Leonard Bernstein Award in 2006.

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FRAGMENTS 4 World Premiere

Known for her “stylistic sensitivity, verve and spontaneous delight in discovery” (The Guardian), Weilerstein introduced her major new multisensory performance series, “FRAGMENTS,” last season 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.

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