and
Marie-Elisabeth Hecker in 2019 at the
Hochschule für Musik Detmold Born in
Guben, Weithaas studied at the
Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" in Berlin. In 1987 she won the Kreisler-Wettbewerb in
Graz,
in 1988 the
International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition in Leipzig and in 1991 the
International Joseph Joachim Violin Competition in Hannover, Weithaas worked for some years as a professor at the
Berlin University of the Arts Central to her chamber music work is the Arcanto Quartet, with Daniel Sepec,
Tabea Zimmermann and
Jean-Guihen Queyras.
Harmonia Mundi has published her recordings of works by
Béla Bartók,
Johannes Brahms,
Maurice Ravel,
Henri Dutilleux,
Claude Debussy and
Franz Schubert. Weithaas partners with the pianist Silke Avenhaus on tours and on five recordings of works by Schubert, Brahms,
Felix Mendelssohn,
Antonín Dvořák,
Josef Suk and French composers on the label CAvi-Music. As the artistic director of
Camerata Bern, Weithaas was responsible for the recording of two Beethoven works for the ensemble's 50th anniversary, the
String Quartet No. 11 and
Richard Tognetti's arrangement of the
Kreutzer Sonata. Other collaborators in chamber music include the cellist , the clarinettist
Sharon Kam,
Christian Tetzlaff (violin) and
Tanja Tetzlaff (cello) and the pianist
Lars Vogt. Weithaas is part of the core of artists appearing at the festival
Spannungen – Musik im Kraftwerk Heimbach, at the electrical power station
Kraftwerk Heimbach. Weithaas, Avenhaus and the horn player
Marie-Luise Neunecker perform as a trio. == Concertos ==