Born in 1966 in Brandenburg, Germany, Antje Weithaas began studying violin at the age of four. She perfected her skills in Berlin at the Hanns Eisler School of Music and won a series of prestigious awards in the late 1980s in Graz, Leipzig, and Hannover.
Her repertoire is vast, spanning from the 18th century to the present day.
As a soloist, she has performed with the most renowned German orchestras, including the Bamberg Symphony, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, and the leading ensembles of the national radio broadcasters, as well as with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, and BBC Symphony Orchestra.
She has collaborated with conductors such as Vladimir Ashkenazy, Sir Neville Marriner, Marc Albrecht, Yakov Kreizberg, Sakari Oramo, and Carlos Kalmar.
A central part of her career has been the Arcanto Quartet, which she co-founded with violinist Daniel Sepec, violist Tabea Zimmermann, and cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras.
Antje Weithaas’s discography includes recordings of the Beethoven and Alban Berg Concertos, the complete works of Bruch for violin and orchestra, the complete Sonatas and Partitas by Bach and Ysaÿe for solo violin, Schumann’s Concerto, and Brahms’s Double Concerto. Her repertoire also features rarely performed modern works by György Ligeti, Sofia Gubaidulina, and Othmar Schoeck.
She plays a 2001 violin made by Peter Greiner.
