Antje Weithaas

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Weithaas on the cover of the Belgian magazine deSingel (2014)

Antje Weithaas (* 1966 in Guben ) is a German violinist .

Life

Antje Weithaas started playing the violin at the age of four and a half. She later studied at the Hanns Eisler University of Music in Berlin with Professor Werner Scholz . In 1987 she won the Kreisler Competition in Graz, in 1988 the Bach Competition in Leipzig and in 1991 the International Joseph Joachim Violin Competition in Hanover, of which she became Artistic Director in 2019. Antje Weithaas was a professor at the Berlin University of the Arts for several years, and in 2004 she switched to the Hanns Eisler University of Music. Antje Weithaas plays an instrument made by Stefan-Peter Greiner in 2001.

Weithaas, Martin Helmchen , Marie-Elisabeth Hecker , at the Detmold University of Music (2019)

In addition to solo and chamber music appearances, Antje Weithaas has played with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin , the Bamberg Symphony , the Los Angeles Philharmonic , the San Francisco Symphony , the Philharmonia Orchestra , the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the leading orchestras in the Netherlands, Scandinavia and Asia. Her partners on the conductor's desk included Vladimir Ashkenazy , Sir Neville Marriner , Marc Albrecht , Yakov Kreizberg , Sakari Oramo and Carlos Kalmar . For Antje Weithaas, one focus of her chamber music work is the Arcanto Quartet with Daniel Sepec , Tabea Zimmermann and Jean-Guihen Queyras . CDs with works by Bartók , Brahms , Ravel , Dutilleux and Debussy and Schubert have been released on the Harmonia Mundi label .

She has a permanent chamber music partnership with the pianist Silke Avenhaus on tours and five CDs with works by Schubert, Brahms, Mendelssohn , Dvořáks , Suks and French composers on the label CAvi-music . On the 50th birthday of the Camerata Bern , Antje Weithaas documented her artistic direction with a recording of two arrangements of Beethoven works, the string quartet op. 95 and the Kreutzer sonata (arranged by Richard Tognetti ).

Antje Weithaas also played chamber music in changing formations with Clemens Hagen , Sharon Kam , Christian and Tanja Tetzlaff and Lars Vogt . Antje Weithaas is part of the core of the artist ensemble that organizes the Tensions - Music festival at the Heimbach power plant . In addition, she forms a trio together with horn player Marie-Luise Neunecker and pianist Silke Avenhaus.

repertoire

In addition to concerts by Mozart , Beethoven and Schumann and new works such as the violin concerto by Jörg Widmann , her concert repertoire also includes modern classics such as Shostakovich , Prokofiev , Hartmann and Ligeti as well as rarely played violin concertos such as those by Korngold , Schoeck and Gubaidulina .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Camerata Bern - Prof. Antje Weithaas. In: professionals.klassik.com, accessed on September 20, 2012 (to take over the artistic direction).
  2. ↑ Antje Weithaas ( memento from January 27, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ). In: klassik-heute.com, accessed on January 11, 2017.
  3. ^ Prof. Antje Weithaas , Hanns Eisler University of Music, Berlin
personal data
SURNAME Weithaas, Antje
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German violinist
DATE OF BIRTH 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Guben