‘You have to record the Beethoven sonatas once in your life,’ says violinist Antje Weithaas. Her complete recording, which she completed in April 2024 together with pianist Dénes Várjon, has been widely acclaimed as a new benchmark recording and was awarded the 2024 German Record Critics’ Award.
WeiterlesenAntje Weithaas and Camerata Bern have been nominated for the 2026 Annual Prize of the German Record Critics’ Award (PdSK) with their recording of Dvořák’s Violin Concerto and Serenade for Strings (AVI / Deutsche Grammophon). Thus, they are on the longlist of outstanding new releases. aoutstanding new releases for the German Record Critics’ Prize (PdSK)
The winners of the Annual Awards will be announced on 15 October.
Longlist for the 2026 Annual Awards
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As she turns 60, German violinist Antje Weithaas reflects on friendship, collaboration and taking up conducting.
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Antje Weithaas joined EAS Musikmanagement with director Andreea Butucariu Based in Berlin and Sierra (Spain) for worldwide general management as of March 2026.
WeiterlesenFrom 25 July to 7 August, Antje Weithaas will be touring South America with the Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra, performing seven concerts in Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay.
WeiterlesenThis year, the OPUS KLASSIK music prize honours the outstanding violinist Antje Weithaas as Instrumentalist of the Year.
With exceptional virtuosity, musical depth and international renown, she has been one of the leading violinists for many years. Her playing inspires audiences and experts alike - on stage and on recordings. ‘Antje Weithaas, and that is certain, is not just a violinist, she is a musician, and currently one of the best.’ rbb radio 3 Kultur
Award ceremony: 12 October 2025, Konzerthaus Berlin
Album: Pēteris Vasks Violin Concerto No. 2, Antje Weithaas & Camerata Bern (AvI Music, a Universal Music Company)
WeiterlesenFrom 17 to 25 May, Antje Weithaas will be performing recitals and orchestral concerts in five major Chinese cities.
The concerts in Chengdu, Jiangsu, Shenzhen, Zhongshan and Wuhan will feature Bach partitas as well as the violin concertos by Tchaikovsky and Brahms (both in D major).
WeiterlesenFrom 16 - 28 September 2024, 23 excellent young violinists from ten nations will take part in the international Joseph Joachim Violin Competition in Hanover/Lower Saxony. For the second time, the competition, which takes place every three years, will be under the artistic direction of Antje Weithaas and Oliver Wille.
WeiterlesenPēteris Vasks (*1946) wrote his second violin concerto Vakara gaismā (In Evening Light) – like his first violin concerto 25 years earlier – for violin and string orchestra. The Latvian composer, composition teacher and double bassist created the commissioned work in 2020. The studio recording, which is now available, was made in connection with a concert series in Bern/CH in February 2024 with soloist and conductor Antje Weithaas and the Camerata Bern.
WeiterlesenFor the second time, the Beethoven cycle by Antje Weithaas and Dénes Várjon has been honoured by the jury of the German Record Critics' Award (PdSK)! After Volume 1 of the cycle was awarded a Quarterly Critic’s Choice 03/2023, Volume 3 has now also been honoured as Quarterly Critic’s Choice 03/2024. The jury praised the recording as a ‘reference recording that no one should miss’
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WeiterlesenBeethoven completed! Violinist Antje Weithaas and pianist Dénes Várjon each combine enthusiasm and verve with technical precision in their very own way.
WeiterlesenFrom 29 March - 6 April 2024, Antje Weithaas will perform all Bach solo sonatas and partitas in nine solo recitals in six major Chinese cities.
Weiterlesen“Music’s finest hour … Triumph of playing mastery surpassing all technical limits, underlaid by a sovereign and dynamic vigour”: this was what the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung very recently had to say about Antje Weithaas’s solo recital (March 2023). The magazine Fono Forum has stated that “she is one of the greatest violinists of our times”...
Weiterlesen“A magical hour of music - what unfolded in two almost completely packed hours was a triumph of playful sovereignty across all technical boundaries, carried by superior dynamic resilience, which seemed unobtrusively self-evident."
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 6 March 2023, Gerhard Schroth - on solo recital at Frankfurt's Alte Oper with Bach and Ysaÿe
WeiterlesenOn its summer tour, under the motto "Musical Friendships," the Bundesjugendorchester will perform works by Brahms and Mahler that were written at the same time shortly before the composers' friendship began. Antje Weithaas and Maximilian Hornung will interpret Brahms' Double Concerto in A minor for violin, violoncello, and orchestra at the six concerts.
WeiterlesenThe BBC Music Magazine "Concerto" Award 2021 winner is Antje Weithaas with her Schumann Violin Concerto recording - “A truly compelling performance” (Michael Beek/BBC Music Magazine) - with the NDR Radiophilharmonie, Andrew Manze and Maximilian Hornung (cello, Brahms Double Concerto) on the label cpo.
Watch the official BBC Music Magazine trailer introducing the winners of this year's BBC Music Magazine Awards (Antje Weithaas starting at 8:10).
WeiterlesenAntje Weithaas starts her concert season 2020/2021 in Bremerhaven with a series of six concerts (August 22-26, 2020).
WeiterlesenIn the interview with niusic, Antje Weithaas takes up the cudgles for Robert Schumann’s Violin Concerto.
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