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Antje Weithaas | Violin
“Antje Weithaas is one of the great violinists of our time.” (FONOFORUM)
Brimful of energy, Antje Weithaas' brings her compelling musical intelligence and technical mastery to every detail of the music. Her charisma and stage presence are captivating, but never overshadow the works themselves. She has a wide-ranging repertoire that includes the great concertos by Mozart, Beethoven and Schumann, new works such as Jörg Widmann's Violin Concerto, modern classics by Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Ligeti and Gubaidulina, and lesser performed concertos by Hartmann and
Schoeck.
As a soloist, Antje Weithaas has worked with most of Germany's leading orchestras, including the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Bamberg Symphony 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 collaborated with the illustrious conductors Vladimir Ashkenazy, Dmitri Kitayenko, Sir Neville Marriner, Marc Albrecht, Yakov Kreizberg, Sakari Oramo and Carlos Kalmar. She enjoys a close working relationship with conductor Antonello Manacorda with whom she made her debut with the Orchestra Filharmonica del Teatro La Fenice in Venice (Brahms) last season and regularly gives concerts in her hometown Potsdam.
Highlights of the 2017/18 season include her performances as soloist in concerts with the Mozarteumorchester Salzburg under Riccardo Minasi (Mozart Violin Concerto No. 5), with the Rundfunksinfonieorchester under Vladimir Jurowski (Berg Chamber Concert with Lars Vogt), with the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra under Daniel Raiskin (Brahms) and Concerto Budapest under András Keller (Beethoven) as well as her debut with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra and a tour with Le Concert Olympique under Jan Caeyers (Beethoven Triple Concerto with Maximilian Hornung and Till Fellner) with concerts at the Wiener Konzerthaus, Philharmonie Berlin and De Singel Antwerpen, to name just a few. Having been the Camerata Bern's artistic director since the 2009/10 season, she is responsible for the ensemble's musical profile, leading large works such as Beethoven's symphonies, and recording music by Brahms, Mendelssohn and Beethoven. She also enjoys ongoing collaborations with the Swedish Chamber Orchester and the Kammersymphonie Leipzig.
The Arcanto Quartet, with fellow violinist Daniel Sepec, violist Tabea Zimmermann and cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras, has long been particularly important for Antje Weithaas' chamber music activities. In recent years, the quartet has performed at Carnegie Hall in New York, Théâtre du Châtelet and Cité de la Musique Paris, the Philharmonie in Berlin and the Konzerthaus Vienna, and has toured Israel, Japan and North America. They have released CDs on the label Harmonia Mundi with works by Bartók, Brahms, Ravel, Dutilleux, Debussy, Schubert and Mozart.
Antje Weithaas produced a reference recording of Beethoven and Berg's violin concertos in 2013 with the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra under Steven Sloane (CAvi-music).In September 2017, she released the last of three CDs of the complete recordings of Johann Sebastian Bach's solo sonatas and partitas and Eugène Ysaÿe's solo sonatas (CAvi-music). The label cpo recently released Vol. 3 of the complete recording of Max Bruch's works for violin and orchestra with the NDR Radio Philharmonic under Hermann Bäumer to great acclaim. Antje Weithaas will continue her collaboration with the NDR Radio Philharmonic and cpo with recordings of Schumann's Violin Concerto and Brahms' Double Concerto with Maximilian Hornung, both of which will be conducted by Andrew Manze.
Antje Weithaas began playing the violin at the age of 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 Hanover 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.
Johann Sebastian Bach Sonata for Solo Violin No.1 in g minor, BWV1001
Adagio
Fuga. Allegro
Siciliano
Presto
Eugène Ysaÿe Sonata for Solo Violin No.1 in g minor, Op.27/1
Grave
Fugato
Allegretto poco scherzoso
Finale con brio
I N T E R M I S S I O N 1
Johann Sebastian Bach Partita for Solo Violin No.1 in b minor, BWV1002
Allemande
Double
Courante
Double. Presto
Sarabande
Double
Tempo di Bourrée
Double
Eugène Ysaÿe Sonata for Solo Violin No.4 in e minor, Op.27/4
Allemande. Lento maestoso
Sarabande. Quasi lento
Finale. Presto ma non troppo
I N T E R M I S S I O N 2
Johann Sebastian Bach Partita for Solo Violin No.3 in E Major, BWV1006
Preludio
Loure
Gavotte en rondeau
Menuet 1
Menuet 2
Bourrée
Gigue
Eugène Ysaÿe Sonata for Solo Violin No.6 in E Major, Op.27/6
※ Program is subject to change with request from the artist.