Violin

Antje Weithaas

Honored as »Instrumentalist of the Year« at the OPUS KLASSIK 2025 awards, Antje Weithaas is one of the most distinguished artists of our time. Her meteoric career began early: after 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.

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. In 2004, she took up a professorship at her alma mater. Since then, she has been internationally recognized as a world-class violin teacher. Together with Oliver Wille, she is responsible for the artistic direction of the Joseph Joachim Competition.

Her impressive discography, comprising thirty albums of the most important violin concertos from classical to modern, demonstrates her wide-ranging repertoire. The stylistic range and depth of her work extends from Beethoven to Berg, from complete recordings of Bach's solo sonatas and partitas to Tchaikovsky's violin concerto, Schumann's violin concerto, and Brahms' double concerto to Max Bruch's violin concertos and works by Ysaÿe, Khachaturian, and Widmann.

She continues her highly acclaimed recording career with her latest studio production: DG's partner label CAvi-music recently released a recording of Antonín Dvořák's Violin Concerto and Serenade for Strings with the Camerata Bern – presumably the first in which the
soloist also takes on the role of musical director. Previously, the OPUS KLASSIK award-winning recording of Vasks' Violin Concerto No. 2 »In Evening
Light« with the Camerata Bern was released.

Antje Weithaas and pianist Dénes Várjon were awarded the 2024 Annual Prize of the German Record Critics' Association for their complete recording of Ludwig van Beethoven's sonatas for piano and violin.

Antje Weithaas has a long-standing artistic partnership with the Camerata Bern, including almost a decade as artistic director. Today, she is in demand as a play-conduct leader with international chamber orchestras and recently toured South America with the Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra as a soloist, to great acclaim from the press and audiences alike.