2025 – Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra Amsterdam Solistin: Antje Weithaas, Violine

Antje Weithaas (Curriculum Vitae)

With captivating energy and a fine sense for nuances, Antje Weithaas gives her audience a „stellar hour of music“ (FAZ). Her wide stylistic range and unmistakable musical language are fascinating. Blessed with impressive technical mastery and an enormous gamut of sound, she manages the feat of finding very individual readings of the great masterpieces and yet unpretentiously placing herself at the service of the composer. She has an extensive repertoire that includes all great violin concertos as well as new works such as Jörg Widmann’s Violin Concerto, modern classics by Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Ligeti and Gubaidulina, and lesser performed concertos by Hartmann and Schoeck.

Antje Weithaas was a professor at the Universität der Künste Berlin for several years before moving to the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in 2004. Since then, she has become a world-class violin teacher. She plays on a 2001 Peter Greiner violin.

Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra

Founded in 1987, the Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra (CCO) is made up of members from the world famous Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam. For many decades they have been performing all over de world with prominent soloists and conductors. In recent years, the CCO has collaborated with national and international soloists such as Fazil Say, Kit Armstrong, Elisabeth Leonskaja,  Liza Ferschtman, Nicolas Altstaedt, Ronald Brautigam Marietta Petkova, Stefan Vladar, Harriet Krijgh, Amihai Grosz and Noa Wildschut.

Some quotes from various reviews:  Distilled sound….  Sparkling evening ….Virtuoso and pleasurable languishing…. whispering, whispering bravos for the Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra…Kit Armstrong and the Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra played at the highest level.