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From 20 September to 4 October, Antje Weithaas will be performing solo and, above all, in duo recitals on an extensive tour of Chinese concert halls, presenting her acclaimed Beethoven cycle with Dénes Várjon.
As soloist and conductor, Antje Weithaas has now recorded another joint album with the Camerata Bern - the CD with Dvořák's Violin Concerto and his String Serenade has now been released by CAvi-music.
Instrumentalist of the Year: Antje Weithaas receives the OPUS KLASSIK 2025!
Johann Sebastian Bach, Sonata No. 1 in G minor, BWV 1001
Johann Sebastian Bach, Partita No. 1 in B minor BWV 1002
Johann Sebastian Bach, Sonata No. 2 in A minor BWV 1003
Johann Sebastian Bach, Partita No. 2 in D minor BWV 1004
Johann Sebastian Bach, Sonata No. 3 in C major BWV 1005
Johann Sebastian Bach, Partita No. 3 in E major BWV 1006
Antje Weithaas, violin
Ludwig van Beethoven, Sonata for Piano and Violin No. 2 in A major, Op. 12/2
Ludwig van Beethoven, Sonata for Piano and Violin No. 4 in A minor, Op. 23
Ludwig van Beethoven, Sonata for Piano and Violin No. 9 in A Major, Op. 47 'Kreutzer'
Dénes Várjon, piano
Ludwig van Beethoven, Sonata for Piano and Violin No. 3 E-flat major, Op. 12
Ludwig van Beethoven, Sonate für Piano and Violin Nr. 6 A-Dur, Op. 30/1
Ludwig van Beethoven, Sonata for Piano and Violin No. 8 g Major, Op. 30/3
Ludwig van Beethoven, Sonata for Piano and Violin No.7 C Minor, Op. 30/2
Ludwig van Beethoven, Sonata for Piano and Violin No. 1 D major, Op. 12/1
Ludwig van Beethoven, Sonata for Piano and Violin No. 5 in F major, Op. 24 'Spring'
Ludwig van Beethoven, Sonata for Piano and Violin No.10 in G Major, Op. 96
Johann Sebastian Bach/Bearbeitung: Edward Elgar, Fantasia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 537
Dmitri Schostakowitsch, Violin Concerto No. 2 in C sharp minor, Op. 129
Johannes Brahms, Symphony No. 1 in C minor Op. 68
Concerto Budapest
András Keller, conductor
Benjamin Britten, Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge, Op. 10
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Concerto for Violin and String Orchestra in D minor
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Symphony No. 4, Op. 90 'Italian'
Antje Weithaas
Swedish Chamber Orchestra
Franz Schubert, Sonatine a-Moll D 385 op. 137/2
Witold Lutosławski, Partita for violin and piano
Thomas Hoppe, piano
Igor Strawinsky, Pulcinella-Suite (1949)
Joseph Haydn, Violin Concerto No. 3 in A major Hob.VIIa:3
Joseph Haydn, Symphony No. 83 "La Poule"
Niedersächsisches Staatsorchester Hannover
Her imaginative and intelligent playing gains its freedom not by distancing itself from the orchestra, but by throwing itself unreservedly and fearlessly into musical relationships. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Igor Kallenberg, 21/12/2024
Awarded the OPUS Klassik 2025 as “Instrumentalist of the Year,” Antje Weithaas is one of the most distinguished musical personalities of our time. Her remarkable career began early: following numerous competition successes, she quickly established herself as a virtuoso young soloist alongside renowned orchestras such as the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and the major German radio orchestras. But what makes her one of the “great violinists of our time” (Fono Forum) goes far beyond a brilliant start: it is the depth and sincerity of an artistically mature, consciously shaped career, supported by long-standing partnerships, interpretative maturity, artistic integrity, and a wealth of experience. With a commanding stage presence and a keen sense of nuance, she masterfully crafts deeply personal interpretations of great masterpieces — always unpretentious and in the service of the music, never seeking mere effect.
Antje Weithaas and pianist Dénes Várjon were awarded the 2024 Annual Prize of the German Record Critics’ Award for their complete recording of the sonatas for piano and violin by Ludwig van Beethoven. Released on CAvi-music and digitally distributed by Deutsche Grammophon, the recordings have already been presented in full-cycle concerts at the Casals Forum in Kronberg and in Budapest. In 2026, the complete Beethoven cycle will be performed at the Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin.
With an impressive discography of thirty albums and a wide-ranging repertoire that spans the most important violin concertos from the Classical era to the modern day, Antje Weithaas is today considered one of — if not the — leading European authorities in the art of violin playing. She continues her acclaimed recording career with her latest studio album: a recording of Antonín Dvořák’s Violin Concerto and Serenade for Strings with the Camerata Bern, recently released on the DG partner label CAvi-music — presumably the first recording of these works led from the violin by the soloist herself. This was preceded by the OPUS Klassik award-winning recording of Vasks’s Violin Concerto No. 2 In Evening Light, also with Camerata Bern. Antje Weithaas shares a long-standing artistic partnership with the ensemble, having served as its artistic director for nearly a decade. Today, she is a sought-after play-conduct leader with international chamber orchestras and recently toured South America as soloist with the Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra — a tour that was met with enthusiastic acclaim from both press and audiences.
Earlier recordings — such as the benchmark interpretation of the Beethoven and Berg violin concertos (with the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra under Steven Sloane), Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto and the orchestral version of his String Quartet No. 3 with Camerata Bern, the complete recordings of Bach’s solo sonatas and partitas, Max Bruch’s violin concertos, Schumann’s Violin Concerto, and Brahms’s Double Concerto (all with the NDR Radiophilharmonie under Andrew Manze and Hermann Bäumer), as well as works by Ysaÿe, Khachaturian, and Widmann — highlight the stylistic range and depth of her artistry. With the Arcanto Quartet, she recorded critically acclaimed albums for Harmonia Mundi featuring works by Brahms, Bartók, Ravel, Dutilleux, Debussy, Schubert, and Mozart.
Antje Weithaas began playing the violin at the age of four and a half and studied at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin with Werner Scholz. After early competition successes — including the Kreisler Competition in Graz, the Bach Competition in Leipzig, and the International Joseph Joachim Violin Competition in Hanover — she took up a professorship at her alma mater in 2004. Since then, she has been internationally recognized as a violin pedagogue of the highest calibre. Together with Oliver Wille, she serves as artistic director of the Joseph Joachim Competition. Antje Weithaas plays a violin made by Peter Greiner in 2001.
2025/2026 season
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Duo with Dénes Várjon (piano)L. v. Beethoven:Violinsonate G-Dur op. 96 „Frühlingssonate"Violinsonate D-Dur op. 12 Nr. 1Violinsonate A-Dur op. 30 Nr. 1Auch als kompletter Sonaten-Zyklus verfügbar.
Trio with Marie-Elisabeth Hecker (cello) & Martin Helmchen (piano)F. Schubert: Piano Trio No. 1 B-flat major, Op. 99 D 898 P. Tschaikowsky: Piano Trio A minor, Op. 50
(for the season of 2024/25)
"Antje Weithaas and the Camerata Bern show passion, agility, sensitivity and temperament in Dvořák's Violin Concerto. An event that sets standards. Thrilling!"
Concerti, Ecki Ramón Weber, 10/9/2025 (on the release of Dvořák's violin concerto and string serenade)
“Antje Weithaas marks a highlight in the history of the Bachwoche Ansbach: the renowned musician amazes the audience in St. John's Church with her ‘true voice’, the violin, to such an extent that they fall silent in awe before breaking into sustained applause.“
Fränkische Landeszeitung, Sabine Kreimendahl, 11/8/2025
“Antje Weithaas’s unassuming virtuosity comes into its own as she dispatches some extended three- and four-part chordal sequences, a well as a few treacherous tenths, without batting an eyelid or accepting any compromises as far as beauty of tone is concerned.” (on the release of Pēteris Vasks' violin concerto no. 2 with the Camerata Bern)
The Strad, Carlos María Solare, April 2025
“In the final Andante con amore, the solo violin floats above the orchestral organ point at the beginning of the movement as if redeemed. Even in the icy heights of the finale, Weithaas' violin tone never becomes cold, but instead develops warmth and urgency.”
Backstage Classical, Georg Rudiger, 24/04/2025
“Her imaginative and intelligent playing gain its freedom from throwing herself into the musical relationship without reservation or fear, rather than from the orchestra.“
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Igor Kallenberg, 21/12/2024
“A work whose essence Antje Weithaas captures so surely that it should appeal to traditional music lovers as well as listeners open to more modern sounds.“
Aachener Zeitung, Pedro Obiera, 14/11/2024 (on the release of Pēteris Vasks' violin concerto Nn. 2 with the Camerata Bern)
“The soloist's incredible and highly poetic virtuosity was especially fascinating.”
Rheinische Post, Ingo Hoddick, 26/4/2024 (on the new version of Manfred Trojahn's concerto for violin and orchestra)
“Weithaas and Várjon are stimulating interpreters of these wonderful works: you learn, listen and love as never before.”
Gramophone, Rob Cowan, June 2024 (Beethoven sonatas Vol. III)
“Weithaas' and Várjon’s cycle will be one to reckon with.”
Gramophone, Andrew Farach-Colton, 5/1/2024 (Beethoven sonatas Vol. II)
“Antje Weithaas and Dénes Várjon deliver a spirited result above all through their inspiring musicality and their playing of absolute precision and great concentration.”
Radio France, Emilie Munera/Rodolphe Bruneau-Boulmier, 18/5/2023 (Beethoven sonatas Vol. I: record of the day)
"The wonderful Antje Weithaas is able to develop the enormously demanding but not actually virtuoso solo part out of the line with such precious as well as unpretentious clarity - and raise the question why this magnificent piece has not made it into the repertoire."
Leipziger Volkszeitung, Peter Korfmacher, 8/11/2022 - on Szymanowski's Violin Concerto with the MDR Symphony Orchestra
"The violinist Antje Weithaas is simply prodigious in Beethoven's Violin Concerto, thanks to her playing which avoids all flashiness, internalizing Beethoven's sublime work to the maximum."
On-Mag, Michel Jakubowicz, 24/04/2022
"Antje Weithaas caresses and revels [in Schumann's Violin Concerto] with a devoted spontaneity and radian flair that brings this exclusive score fully to life in a way unmatched on disk."
The Strad, Julian Haylock, April 2020
Antje Weithaas, Dénes Várjon - Beethoven: I. Allegro [Violin Sonata No. 5 in F Major, Op. 24]
Violinistas compositores. Ysaÿe neobarroco | Antje Weithaas
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Concerto D minor for Violin and Strings with Kammerakademie Potsdam
Antje Weithaas, Camerata BernCAvi, 2025, 4867795
Antje Weithaas, Camerata Bern
CAvi, 2024, HD&SD digital release only
Antje Weithaas, Dénes Várjon
CAvi, 2024, 8553508
CAvi, 2023
CAvi, 2023, 8553512
Antje Weithaas, Staatsorchester Rheinische Philharmonie, Daniel Raiskincpo, 2019, 555 0932
Antje Weithaas, Maximilian Hornung, NDR Radiophilharmonie, Andrew Manzecpo, 2019, 555 172-2
Antje Weithaas, Camerata BernCAvi, 2018, 8553393
Antje WeithaasCAvi, 2017, 8553381
CAvi, 2016, 8553346
Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 3 | Konzertstück| Romanze
Antje Weithaas, NDR Radiophilharmonie, Hermann Bäumer
cpo, 2016, 3126654
Brahms: Violin Concerto | String Quintet No. 2
CAvi, 2015, 8553382
Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1 | Serenade
cpo, 2015, 3126649
CAvi, 2014, 8553320
Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 2 | Schottische Fantasie
cpo, 2014, 3097858
Antje Weithaas, Stanvanger Symfoniorkester, Steven SloaneCAvi, 2013, 85533053