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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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San Diego Symphony Tour, Schubert, and FRAGMENTS

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).

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Berlin, Rochester, and Barcelona

Alisa Weilerstein opens her fall season with two Berlin performances of Grawemeyer Award winner Unsuk Chin’s Cello Concerto – at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden and in the Berliner Philharmonie as part of Musikfest Berlin – under the baton of her husband, Rafael Payare (Sep 7 & 8).

After Berlin, Weilerstein is set to perform Elgar’s Cello Concerto for the opening of the Rochester Philharmonic’s centennial season under Music Director Andreas Delfs (Sep 21 &

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