Antje Weithaas

Antje Weithaas (born 1966)[1][2] is a German classical violinist. Apart from solo recitals and chamber music performances, she has played with leading orchestras in Europe, Asia and the United States.

Antje Weithaas
Program booklet of a concert by Weithaas in Belgian arts centre deSingel (2014)
Born1966 (age 54–55)
Guben, East Germany
EducationHochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" in Berlin
Occupation
  • Classical violinist
  • Academic teacher
Organization
Awards
Websiteantje-weithaas.de/en/

Career
Weithaas, Martin Helmchen and Marie-Elisabeth Hecker in 2019 at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold

Born in Guben, Weithaas studied at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" in Berlin.[3] In 1987 she won the Kreisler-Wettbewerb in Graz, in 1988 the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition in Leipzig and in 1991 the International Joseph Joachim Violin Competition in Hannover,[3] whose artistic director she became in 2019.[4] Weithaas worked for some years as a professor at the Berlin University of the Arts[3] and moved in 2004 to the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler".[5] Since 2017, she has also taught at the Kronberg Academy.[6]

Weithaas plays a 2001 instrument by Stefan-Peter Greiner.[7][5]

Apart from solo recitals and chamber music performances, Weithaas has played with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and Bamberg Symphony as well as with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Philharmonia Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra and leading orchestras in the Netherlands, Scandinavia and Asia,[3] with conductors such as Vladimir Ashkenazy, Neville Marriner, Marc Albrecht, Yakov Kreizberg, Sakari Oramo and Carlos Kalmar.[6] Central to her chamber music work is the Arcanto Quartet, with Daniel Sepec, Tabea Zimmermann and Jean-Guihen Queyras.[8] Harmonia Mundi has published her recordings of works by Béla Bartók, Johannes Brahms, Maurice Ravel, Henri Dutilleux, Claude Debussy and Franz Schubert.[9]

Weithaas partners with the pianist Silke Avenhaus on tours[10] and on five recordings of works by Schubert, Brahms, Felix Mendelssohn, Antonín Dvořák, Josef Suk and French composers on the label CAvi-Music.[11] As the artistic director of Camerata Bern, Weithaas was responsible for the recording of two Beethoven works for the ensemble's 50th anniversary, the String Quartet No. 11 and Richard Tognetti's arrangement of the Kreutzer Sonata.[12]

Other collaborators in chamber music include the cellist Clemens Hagen, the clarinettist Sharon Kam, Christian Tetzlaff (violin) und Tanja Tetzlaff (cello) and the pianist Lars Vogt. Weithaas is part of the core of artists appearing at the festival Spannungen - Musik im Kraftwerk Heimbach, at the electrical power station of Heimbach.[13] Weithaas, Avenhaus and the horn player Marie-Luise Neunecker perform as a trio.[14]

Concertos

Weithaas has a repertoire of classical concertos by Mozart, Beethoven and Robert Schumann, contemporary works such as Jörg Widmann's concerto, and modern classics such as the concertos by Dmitri Shostakovich, Sergei Prokofiev, Georg Hartmann and György Ligeti, as well as rarely performed concertos such as those by Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Othmar Schoeck and Sofia Gubaidulina. Fiona Maddocks, a reviewer for The Guardian, wrote in 2015 that a recording by Weithaas of Bruch's Violin Concerto reminded her "with quiet and compelling eloquence, why it's a masterpiece".[7]

References
  1. "Prof. Antje Weithaas". klassik.com (in German). Retrieved 11 June 2020.
  2. "Antje Weithaas", short biography, klassik-heute.com (in German)
  3. " Prof. Antje Weithaas ", profile, Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler"
  4. "Internationaler Joseph Joachim Violinwettbewerb Hannover". Stiftung Niedersachsen (in German). Retrieved 13 June 2020.
  5. "Antje Weithaas zu Gast im Oberlinhaus". oberlin-stiftung.de (in German). 2015. Retrieved 18 June 2020.
  6. Antje Weithaas, Kronberg Academy
  7. Maddocks, Fiona (13 September 2015). "Bruch: Violin Concerto No 1, Serenade, In Memoriam CD review – quiet and compelling eloquence". The Guardian. Retrieved 13 June 2020.
  8. Arcanto Quartet, Edinburgh International Festival, August 2015
  9. Arcanto Quartett, Harmonia Mundi
  10. "Antje Weithaas violin; Silke Avenhaus piano", Wigmore Hall, November 2014
  11. Antje Weithaas at AllMusic
  12. "Kreutzer vs. Kreutzer", Amsterdam Sinfonietta, November 2019
  13. "2019 Mitwirkende" [participants], spannungen.de
  14. "Romantisches Feeling mit Hörnerklang" by Eckhard Finckh, Nürtinger Zeitung, 26 May 2017 (in German)(subscription required)
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