From 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.
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Pēteris 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.
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For 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’
Best list 03/2024
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Beethoven completed! Violinist Antje Weithaas and pianist Dénes Várjon each combine enthusiasm and verve with technical precision in their very own way.
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From 29 March - 6 April 2024, Antje Weithaas will perform all Bach solo sonatas and partitas in nine solo recitals in six major Chinese cities.
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“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”...
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“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
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On 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.
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The 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).
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Antje Weithaas starts her concert season 2020/2021 in Bremerhaven with a series of six concerts (August 22-26, 2020).
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In the interview with niusic, Antje Weithaas takes up the cudgles for Robert Schumann’s Violin Concerto.
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Lars Vogt und 15 muscial friends organized a “Ghost Festival” in cooperation with Deutschlandfunk, Deutschlandfunk Kultur and IDAGIO. From June 21-28, 2020, the artists will play a programme every evening without audience which will be broadcast during the next months.
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There are new dates for the concerts with the Bochumer Symphoniker under the baton of Steven Sloane: June 11-13, 2020.
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In the series “Letters to Beethoven” at Deutschlandfunk, musicians write a letter to the composer – they thank him, they have questions, they explain the role his music plays in their lives.
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A lot of concerts with Antje Weithaas are cancelled due to the Corona pandemic. Her schedule on this website will be updated regularly.
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Together with musical partners such as Thomas Hoppe and Quirine Viersen, Antje Weithaas will perform chamber music by Beethoven at the Februari Festival in The Hague (Feb 12-16, 2020).
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In Autumn 2019, two CDs with Antje Weithaas were released. Journalist Christoph Vratz presented them at “Deutschlandfunk” in the programme “New recording” in detail (in German).
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They knew each other and appreciated each other: Robert Schumann called Johannes Brahms a "hero of a new generation", Brahms, on the other hand, was sold on Schumann's romantic style. Antje Weithaas recorded works by these two composers together with the NDR Radiophilharmonie under the baton of Andrew Manze (cpo).
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