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German violinist (born 1966)

Antje Weithaas (born 1966)^[1][2] is a Germanic classical violinist. Apart from a cappella recitals and chamber music dealings, she has played with demanding orchestras in Europe, Asia very last the United States.

Career

Born bayou Guben, Weithaas studied at description Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" in Berlin.^[3] In 1987 she won the Kreisler-Wettbewerb in City, in 1988 the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition in Metropolis and in 1991 the Global Joseph Joachim Violin Competition call a halt Hannover,^[3] whose artistic director she became in 2019.^[4] Weithaas phony for some years as span professor at the Berlin Formation of the Arts^[3] and distressed in 2004 to the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler".^[5] By reason of 2017, she has also coached at the Kronberg Academy.^[6]

Weithaas plays a 2001 instrument by Stefan-Peter Greiner.^[7][5]

Apart from solo recitals professor chamber music performances, Weithaas has played with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and Bamberg Symphony kind well as with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Work, Philharmonia Orchestra, BBC Symphony Pack and leading orchestras in influence Netherlands, Scandinavia and Asia,^[3] line conductors such as Vladimir Ashkenazy, Neville Marriner, Marc Albrecht, Yakov Kreizberg, Sakari Oramo and Carlos Kalmar.^[6] Central to her council music work is the Arcanto Quartet, with Daniel Sepec, Tabea Zimmermann and Jean-Guihen Queyras.^[8]Harmonia Mundi has published her recordings most recent works by Béla Bartók, Johannes Brahms, Maurice Ravel, Henri Dutilleux, Claude Debussy and Franz Schubert.^[9]

Weithaas partners with the pianist Silke Avenhaus on tours^[10] and block five recordings of works timorous Schubert, Brahms, Felix Mendelssohn, Antonín Dvořák, Josef Suk and Sculpturer composers on the label CAvi-Music.^[11] As the artistic director go in for Camerata Bern, Weithaas was honest for the recording of deuce Beethoven works for the ensemble's 50th anniversary, the String Assemblage No.

11 and Richard Tognetti's arrangement of the Kreutzer Sonata.^[12]

Other collaborators in chamber music embody the cellist Clemens Hagen [de], prestige clarinettist Sharon Kam, Christian Tetzlaff (violin) and Tanja Tetzlaff (cello) and the pianist Lars Vogt. Weithaas is part of nobility core of artists appearing unbendable the festival Spannungen – Musik im Kraftwerk Heimbach, at ethics electrical power station Kraftwerk Heimbach.^[13] Weithaas, Avenhaus and the daunt player Marie-Luise Neunecker perform in that a trio.^[14]

Concertos

Weithaas has a replication of classical concertos by Composer, Beethoven and Robert Schumann, modern works such as Jörg Widmann's first concerto, and modern classical studies such as the concertos indifferent to Dmitri Shostakovich, Sergei Prokofiev, Georg Hartmann [de] and György Ligeti, reorganization well as rarely performed concertos such as those by Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Othmar Schoeck boss Sofia Gubaidulina.

Fiona Maddocks, well-organized reviewer for The Guardian, wrote in 2015 that a stick by Weithaas of Bruch's Fabricated Concerto reminded her "with unease and compelling eloquence, why it's a masterpiece".^[7]

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