Alisa Weilerstein: FRAGMENTS
Introduction
In the ground-breaking performance series FRAGMENTS, Alisa Weilerstein brings a completely unique, hypnotic and transcendental performance experience to the classical stage.
New commissions by 27 different composers are interwoven with the six Bach Cello Suites, from which Alisa has curated this 6-part collection. Underscored with bespoke lighting, scenic architecture and costume design from a world-class team of creatives, each of the six FRAGMENTS embodies it's own striking identity that transforms the Bach Cello suites in turn.
With no pause and a program that is revealed only after the performance, Alisa invites the audience to simply immerse themselves into each wholly original 60-minute sonic landscape.
FRAGMENTS has toured extensively across the US, with 30+ performances to date, expanding to Europe with three tours in the 25/26 season and across to Asia in 26/27.
Major residencies include Carnegie Hall, San Diego Symphony, Spoleto Festival US and Southbank Centre London.
Composers
Creative Team
Performances
- Nov 2023 - Nov 2023North America
Alisa Weilerstein (Soloist) Sanders Theatre Boston | Maison Symphonique Montreal | Walt Disney Concert Hall Los Angeles | The Conrad La Jolla Programme revealed after the performance.
- Aug 2023 - Aug 2023North America
Alisa Weilerstein (Soloist) Seiji Ozawa Hall Tanglewood Programme revealed after the performance.
- May 2023 - May 2023North America
Alisa Weilerstein (Soloist) Severance Music Center Cleveland Programme revealed after the performance.
- Apr 2023 - Apr 2023North America
Alisa Weilerstein (Soloist) Carnegie Hall New York Programme revealed after the performance.
- Mar 2023 - Mar 2023North America
Alisa Weilerstein (Soloist) Campbell Hall Santa Barbara | Barclay Theatre Irvine | The Conrad La Jolla Programme revealed after the performance.
- Jan 2023 - Jan 2023North America
Alisa Weilerstein (Soloist) Koerner Hall Toronto Programme revealed after the performance.
- Apr 2024 - Apr 2024North America
Alisa Weilerstein (Soloist) Kennedy Centre, Washington Programme revealed after the performance.
- Jul 2024 - Jul 2024North America
Alisa Weilerstein (Soloist) Harris Hall, Aspen Music Festival Programme revealed after the performance.
- Jan 2025North America
Alisa Weilerstein (Soloist) Carnegie Hall Programme revealed after the performance.
- Apr 2025North America
Alisa Weilerstein (Soloist) Jacobs Music Centre, San Diego Programme revealed after the performance.
- May 2025North America
Alisa Weilerstein (Soloist) Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall Programme revealed after the performance.
- May 2025 - May 2025North America
Alisa Weilerstein (Soloist) Spoleto Festival, South Carolina Programme revealed after the performance.
- Sep 2025Europe
Alisa Weilerstein (Soloist) De Doelen, Rotterdam Programme revealed after the performance.
- Sep 2025Europe
Alisa Weilerstein (Soloist) Southbank Centre, London Programme revealed after the performance.
- Oct 2025North America
Alisa Weilerstein (Soloist) Jacobs Music Center, San Diego Programme revealed after the performance.
- Apr 2026North America
Alisa Weilerstein (Soloist) Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall Programme revealed after the performance.
- Mar 2026 - Mar 2026Europe
Alisa Weilerstein (Soloist) Dvořák Hall, Ceskafilharmonie Programme revealed after the performance.
- Apr 2026 - Apr 2026North America
Alisa Weilerstein (Soloist) The Concert Hall at William & Mary, Virginia Arts Festival Programme revealed after the performance.
- May 2026 - May 2026Europe
Alisa Weilerstein (Soloist) Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre | stART Festival, Leverkusen | Museum vom Menschen: Deutsches Hygiene Museum, Dresden Programme revealed after the performance.
Video
Photos
News
Carnegie Hall announces 2026/27 season
Alisa Weilerstein premieres FRAGMENTS in Europe
Alisa Weilerstein premieres complete FRAGMENTS series at Spoleto Festival
Carnegie Hall 2025/26: 24 AH artists and new annual celebration in co-presentation with Askonas Holt
Alisa Weilerstein returns to Carnegie Hall with Fragments II
Alisa Weilerstein premieres FRAGMENTS
Press
Carnegie Hall, New York
Carnegie Hall, New YorkApr 2023 - Apr 2024If Weilerstein’s response was a common one to a common crisis, the result of her reflections shines with uncommon ambition, so much so that it is hard to think of many soloists of a similar stature who would dare to bring anything like it to the stage.
- New York Times
- 02 April 2023
Southbank Centre, London
Southbank Centre, LondonSep 2025 - Sep 2025Weilerstein is in the vanguard of classical musicians seeking to bring new music to audiences, and new ways to do so... revinventing the solo cello for a multimedia age.
- The Strad
- 01 October 2025
Spoleto Festival, US
Charleston, USMay 2025 - Jun 2025The most awesome classical-music event this season, intertwining 27 new works by living composers with J.S. Bach’s Six Cello Suites,… Weilerstein crafted her FRAGMENTS into a creation you literally had to see. ...Maybe there was extra exhilaration in the writing or in Weilerstein’s playing. Or perhaps she had taught us how to listen along the way.
- Classical Voice North America
- 09 June 2025
Kennedy Centre, Washington Performing Arts
Washington DCApr 2025 - Apr 2024As Weilerstein launched into the visceral opening bars of Fragment 4 — I sensed a shift of energy in the audience: you could have heard the proverbial pin drop... There was everything here; sonic colours and textures that brought to my mind a fractal in multi-dimensions: history, future, the now.
- Financial Times
- 11 April 2024
Tanglewood Festival
TanglewoodAug 2023 - Aug 2023Epiphanies don’t happen often... but when they do they’re a lot of fun. - Alisa Weilerstein
- Boston Globe
- 03 August 2023