Alisa Weilerstein
cello
About this Artist
The 2025/26 season sees Alisa Weilerstein perform concertos with the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Staatskapelle Berlin, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, Philharmonia Orchestra, and Cleveland Orchestra, alongside Alan Gilbert, Rafael Payare, Alain Altinoglu, Paavo Järvi, and Marin Alsop. She also brings her Fragments project—a six-part sequence of music combining Bach’s Cello Suites with 27 newly commissioned works, accompanied by production, staging, and lighting design—to Europe for the first time, including to the Southbank Centre as part of her residency there.
Highlights of the previous two seasons have included performances with the Berliner Philharmoniker, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Boston Symphony, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Detroit Symphony, City of Birmingham Symphony, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, and Gewandhausorchester, as well as world premieres of concertos by Thomas Larcher, Richard Blackford, and Gabriela Ortiz with the New York Philharmonic, Czech Philharmonic, and Los Angeles Philharmonic, respectively.
A recipient of the MacArthur “genius grant” Fellowship, Weilerstein performs at the world’s top venues and festivals, including Carnegie Hall, the Verbier Festival, the Aldeburgh Festival, Severance Hall, Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Kennedy Center, and the Tanglewood Festival. She regularly collaborates with musicians such as Franz Welser-Möst, Gustavo Dudamel, Lahav Shani, Karina Canellakis, Ryan Bancroft, Daniel Harding, Joshua Weilerstein, Leonidas Kavakos, Kirill Gerstein, and Inon Barnatan. Weilerstein records for Pentatone.