Weilerstein will be performing Elgar's Cello Concerto with the Philharmonic and conductor Zubin Mehta this week — in concerts on January 11 and 13 in Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center and on January 12 in Verizon Hall at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia. (Bruckner's Symphony No. 7 is also on the program.)

The 24-year-old cellist has had an eventful few months. Last summer, she won the €10,000 Leonard Bernstein Prize from Germany's Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival for a performance of Shostakovich's Cello Concerto No. 1. In November, she made her New York Philharmonic debut during the orchestra's tour of Japan and Korea; on Thanksgiving weekend, she made her Philadelphia Orchestra debut — with the same Shostakovich concerto — as a substitute for Truls Mêªrk.