In addition to her phenomenal career as a soloist and chamber musician, Antje Weithaas is a soughtafter conductor, particularly renowned for her play-conduct collaborations with leading international chamber orchestras.
As artistic director of Camerata Bern for nearly a decade, she helped shape the ensemble’s distinctive musical identity and continues to collaborate with them regularly. From the concertmaster’s podium, she has conducted large-scale repertoire, including Beethoven’s symphonies, and has recorded works by Tchaikovsky, Brahms, and Beethoven for CAvi.
She has also enjoyed a close artistic partnership as artiste associé with the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris.
In 2025, she will embark on a South American tour with the Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra. Her extensive discography includes Beethoven’s and Berg’s Violin Concertos (with the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra and Steven Sloane, CAvi) and the complete works for violin and orchestra by Max Bruch (with the NDR Radiophilharmonie under Hermann Bäumer, CPO). Her acclaimed solo recordings feature J. S. Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas and Eugène Ysaÿe’s Six Sonatas. Further highlights include celebrated recordings of Robert Schumann’s Violin Concerto and Johannes Brahms’ Double Concerto—alongside cellist Maximilian Hornung and conductor Andrew Manze—which received the BBC Music Magazine Award in the „Concerto“ category. Her recording of Aram Khachaturian’s Violin Concerto and Concerto-Rhapsody with the Staatsorchester Rheinische Philharmonie, conducted by Daniel Raiskin, was also met with critical acclaim. Antje Weithaas began playing the violin at the age of four and studied with Professor Werner Scholz at the Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler” in Berlin.
She won the Kreisler Competition in Graz in 1987, the Bach Competition in Leipzig in 1988, and the prestigious Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition Hannover in 1991, which she now co-directs artistically with Oliver Wille. After teaching for several years at the Universität der Künste Berlin, she joined the faculty at the Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler” in 2004, where she has since become one of the world’s most respected violin pedagogues.
She performs on a 2001 violin by Peter Greiner.

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