Antje Weithaas - violin
"Antje Weithaas is one of the great violinists of our time." (FonoForum)
One can hardly imagine a better advocate for music than Antje Weithaas. For her, not only does music itself take the fore but also its conveyance to the public. As one of the most sought-after soloists and chamber musicians of her generation, Antje Weithaas has a wide-ranging repertoire that includes the great concertos by Mozart, Beethoven, and Schumann, modern classics by Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Ligeti and Gubaidulina, and lesser performed concertos by Korngold, Hartmann, and Schoeck.
Antje Weithaas has been invited to perform with Germany's leading orchestras, including the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Bamberger Symphoniker, and the major German radio orchestras, as well as numerous major international orchestras such as the Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Philharmonia Orchestra, BBC Symphony, and the leading orchestras of the Netherlands, Scandinavia, and Asia. She has worked with the illustrious conductors Vladimir Ashkenazy, Sir Neville Marriner, Yuri Temirkanov, Yakov Kreizberg, Sakari Oramo, and Carlos Kalmar.
A tour through South America with the Camerata Bern and Angelika Kirchschlager kicked off Antje Weithaas' 2011/12 season with performances in Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. As Artistic Director of the Camerata Bern, she will also work with Katia and Marielle Labèque, Christoph Prégardien and Jean-Guihen Queyras this season. Further highlights include concerts at the Edinburgh Festival and Rotterdam's Gergiev Festival, Beethoven's Triple Concerto with Lars Vogt and Gustav Rivinius with the German Radio Philharmonic Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern, Berg's violin concerto with the Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Sinfonia Viva Derby and the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Britten's violin concerto with the Orkest van het Oosten, Bruch's Violin Concerto No. 1 with the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra and Beethoven's violin concerto with the Stavanger Symphony and the Camerata Bern.
Antje Weithaas is particularly active in the field of chamber music. Her musical partners include Christian and Tanja Tetzlaff, Clemens Hagen, Silke Avenhaus, Sharon Kam and Lars Vogt. The Arcanto Quartet, with fellow violinist Daniel Sepec, violist Tabea Zimmermann, and cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras, continues to be particularly important for Antje Weithaas's chamber music activities. After a triumphant concert debut in Stuttgart in June 2004, the quartet quickly went on to perform at Carnegie Hall in New York, the Vancouver Recital Series, the Gulbenkian Foundation Lisbon, Palau de la Música Barcelona, Théâtre du Châtelet Paris, Tonhalle Zurich, the Philharmonie in Berlin, at the Rheingau Musik Festival, festivals in Helsinki, Edinburgh and Montreux as well as at the Philharmonie Cologne and the Konzerthaus Vienna. Following the resounding success of their first two CDs on Harmonia Mundi (Bartók's String Quartets No. 5 and 6, Brahms String Quartet Op. 51 No. 1, and Piano Quintet Op. 34 with pianist Silke Avenhaus), a third CD with string quartets by Ravel, Dutilleux, and Debussy was released in autumn 2010. Following their 2008 tour of Israel, 2009 tour of Japan and 2010 tour of North America, the quartet will return to Japan in January 2012. The quartet will also return this season to Wigmore Hall, Amsterdam's Concertgebouw, and the Auditorio Nacional de Musica Madrid and will perform debut concerts at the Prinzregententheater Munich, the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden and the Cité de la Musique Paris.
Antje Weithaas has released several highly praised recordings of sonatas by Brahms and Mendelssohn, as well as of works by Schubert, Saint-Saëns, Ravel, and Fauré with Silke Avenhaus on the CAvi-music label.
Antje Weithaas began playing the violin at age four and later studied at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin with Professor Werner Scholz. She won the Kreisler Competition in Graz in 1987 and the Bach Competition in Leipzig in 1988, as well as the Hannover International Violin Competition in 1991. After teaching at the Universität der Künste Berlin, Antje Weithaas became a professor of violin at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in 2004. She plays on a 2001 Peter Greiner violin.
One can hardly imagine a better advocate for music than Antje Weithaas. For her, not only does music itself take the fore but also its conveyance to the public. As one of the most sought-after soloists and chamber musicians of her generation, Antje Weithaas has a wide-ranging repertoire that includes the great concertos by Mozart, Beethoven, and Schumann, modern classics by Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Ligeti and Gubaidulina, and lesser performed concertos by Korngold, Hartmann, and Schoeck.
Antje Weithaas has been invited to perform with Germany's leading orchestras, including the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Bamberger Symphoniker, and the major German radio orchestras, as well as numerous major international orchestras such as the Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Philharmonia Orchestra, BBC Symphony, and the leading orchestras of the Netherlands, Scandinavia, and Asia. She has worked with the illustrious conductors Vladimir Ashkenazy, Sir Neville Marriner, Yuri Temirkanov, Yakov Kreizberg, Sakari Oramo, and Carlos Kalmar.
A tour through South America with the Camerata Bern and Angelika Kirchschlager kicked off Antje Weithaas' 2011/12 season with performances in Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. As Artistic Director of the Camerata Bern, she will also work with Katia and Marielle Labèque, Christoph Prégardien and Jean-Guihen Queyras this season. Further highlights include concerts at the Edinburgh Festival and Rotterdam's Gergiev Festival, Beethoven's Triple Concerto with Lars Vogt and Gustav Rivinius with the German Radio Philharmonic Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern, Berg's violin concerto with the Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Sinfonia Viva Derby and the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Britten's violin concerto with the Orkest van het Oosten, Bruch's Violin Concerto No. 1 with the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra and Beethoven's violin concerto with the Stavanger Symphony and the Camerata Bern.
Antje Weithaas is particularly active in the field of chamber music. Her musical partners include Christian and Tanja Tetzlaff, Clemens Hagen, Silke Avenhaus, Sharon Kam and Lars Vogt. The Arcanto Quartet, with fellow violinist Daniel Sepec, violist Tabea Zimmermann, and cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras, continues to be particularly important for Antje Weithaas's chamber music activities. After a triumphant concert debut in Stuttgart in June 2004, the quartet quickly went on to perform at Carnegie Hall in New York, the Vancouver Recital Series, the Gulbenkian Foundation Lisbon, Palau de la Música Barcelona, Théâtre du Châtelet Paris, Tonhalle Zurich, the Philharmonie in Berlin, at the Rheingau Musik Festival, festivals in Helsinki, Edinburgh and Montreux as well as at the Philharmonie Cologne and the Konzerthaus Vienna. Following the resounding success of their first two CDs on Harmonia Mundi (Bartók's String Quartets No. 5 and 6, Brahms String Quartet Op. 51 No. 1, and Piano Quintet Op. 34 with pianist Silke Avenhaus), a third CD with string quartets by Ravel, Dutilleux, and Debussy was released in autumn 2010. Following their 2008 tour of Israel, 2009 tour of Japan and 2010 tour of North America, the quartet will return to Japan in January 2012. The quartet will also return this season to Wigmore Hall, Amsterdam's Concertgebouw, and the Auditorio Nacional de Musica Madrid and will perform debut concerts at the Prinzregententheater Munich, the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden and the Cité de la Musique Paris.
Antje Weithaas has released several highly praised recordings of sonatas by Brahms and Mendelssohn, as well as of works by Schubert, Saint-Saëns, Ravel, and Fauré with Silke Avenhaus on the CAvi-music label.
Antje Weithaas began playing the violin at age four and later studied at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin with Professor Werner Scholz. She won the Kreisler Competition in Graz in 1987 and the Bach Competition in Leipzig in 1988, as well as the Hannover International Violin Competition in 1991. After teaching at the Universität der Künste Berlin, Antje Weithaas became a professor of violin at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in 2004. She plays on a 2001 Peter Greiner violin.
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Photo: Marco Borggreve
Photo: Marco Borggreve
Photo: Marco Borggreve