Antje Weithaas | 60th birthday and new album on Deutsche Grammophon
“When I look to the future now, I no longer have anything to prove. It’s great. I can be myself.” (Antje Weithaas)
Antje Weithaas celebrates her 60th birthday in November. The highly acclaimed and internationally respected violinist has every reason to look back with happiness and satisfaction on her unique career, impressive discography, and immensely successful work as a professor of music, and perhaps even take things a little easier from now on. Far from it! Trained at the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin in the former East Germany, Weithaas is embarking on this next chapter of her life with artistic verve and renewed creative energy.
Her new album is due for release at the end of October:
Robert Schumann – Complete Piano Trios
Antje Weithaas – violin
Marie-Elisabeth Hecker – cello
Dénes Várjon – piano
Release date: 30 October 2026, Deutsche Grammophon
2-CD set | Co-production with Deutschlandfunk
Press information: 2026/2027 season
Selected dates for 2026/2027 (Germany, Austria, Switzerland)
9–11 October 2026 | Berlin, Boulez Saal – Beethoven cycle with Dénes Várjon (live on Stage+)
21 November 2026 | Kronberg – Birthday concert: ‘Antje Weithaas 60 – From the Heart’
5 December 2026 | Bonn, Beethovenhalle – Beethoven Orchestra Bonn, play & lead
9–10 December 2026 | Winterthur | CH – Musikkollegium Winterthur, Bartók Violin Concerto No. 1
23–24 January 2027 | Bern | CH – Camerata Bern, Vasks Violin Concerto ‘Distant Light’, play & lead
9 February 2027 | Bonn – Brahms programme with Dénes Várjon.
16 February 2027 | Freiburg – Freiburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Berg Violin Concerto ‘In Memory of an Angel’
27–28 February 2027 | Berlin, Konzerthaus – Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Beethoven’s Violin Concerto.
