Brimming with energy, Antje Weithaas brings her compelling musical intelligence and technical mastery to every detail in the score. Her charisma and stage presence are captivating, but never overshadow the works themselves. Her wide-ranging repertoire encompasses a large portion of major concerto and chamber music works from the Baroque age to the present day.
As a soloist, she has made appearances with a great number of orchestras in Europe and around the globe, collaborating with conductors such as Vladimir Ashkenazy, Dmitri Kitayenko, Sir Neville Marriner, Marc Albrecht, Yakov Kreizberg, Sakari Oramo, and Carlos Kalmar.
With her infectious zest for communication, Antje Weithaas has become a sought-after leader in “Play-Conduct concerts” with internationally renowned chamber orchestras. She was Artistic Director of the Camerata Bern for almost ten years and still returns to work with them on a regular basis.
Her concerts as Associated Artist of the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris in the 2021/22 season led to an immediate re-invitation.
Weithaas’s recordings include the solo sonatas of Bach and Ysaÿe, the Ligeti horn trio, Beethoven quartets, Schubert trios, and the violin concertos of Beethoven, Schumann, Berg, and Khachaturian.
More than anything else, Antje Weihaas is a chamber music musician par excellence and is playing with many high qualified partners.
She won the Kreisler Competition in Graz in 1987 and the Bach Competition in Leipzig in 1988, as well as the renowned Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition Hanover in 1991. Together with Oliver Wille, she recently assumed the artistic directorship of the Joachim competition.
After teaching at the Berlin University of the Arts, Antje Weithaas was appointed to a chair at the Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler” in 2004, where she has acquired a pre-eminent worldwide reputation as a violin teacher. She plays on a 2001 Peter Greiner violin. www.antje-weithaas.de

The American conductor STEVEN SLOANE has been chief conductor of the Bochum Symphony Orchestra since 1994. From 2007 to 2013, he was also principal conductor of the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra. He has performed as a guest conductor with San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic, Sydney Symphony, Tokyo Metropolitan Orchestra, Hessischer Rundfunk Symphony, Philharmonia Orchestra London, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Steven Sloane is a much sought-after opera conductor, whose repertoire includes works that are seldom performed, such as Shostakovich’s Cheryomushki and Schumann’s Genoveva, as well as more traditional works like Tosca, Falstaff and Tristan und Isolde. Recent highlights include a new production of L’amour des trois oranges (Robert Carsen - Berlin), the American premiere of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s opera Anna Nicole (New York) and Madama Butterfly (Copenhagen), as well as Bluebeard’s Castle and Dido and Aeneas (Barrie Kosky – Frankfurt), both of which were performed again in Los Angeles in 2014. Sloane has directed the Spoleto Festival and was artistic director of Opera North and Ruhr2010. In September 2010, at Ruhr2010, he conducted the world premiere of Hans Werner Henze’s Gisela!, directed by Pierre Audi, and led a choir of 65,000 people. He has received the Deutscher Musikverlegerverband award for best concert programme on two occasions