Oratorio masterpiece
Students perform George Frideric Handel's "Messiah" in the Herderkirche
Around 60 students from the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar will perform a masterpiece of oratorio together. Georg Friedrich Handel's "Messiah – an oratorio" will be performed on Saturday, 29 June at 6:00 p.m. in the Stadtkirche St. Peter und Paul, the so-called Herderkirche, in Weimar. Jonas Dippon will conduct the choir and orchestra as part of his church music diploma examination. Admission is free.
The soloists are Mirijam Denz, Thora Müller, Nolwenn Tilly, Felix Stöppler and Samuel Huhn. "Look forward to a concert in which Handel's music brings the 'Messiah' as a human being to the fore and makes it accessible to everyone through expressive baroque forms," explains conductor Jonas Dippon.
"From touching solo parts in the face of the suffering Christ to the ecstatic and world-famous 'Hallelujah' with timpani and trumpets, there is a wide range of profound and simply beautiful music from Handel's pen."
Jonas Dippon was born in Crailsheim (Hohenlohe) in 1999. He initially received piano and organ lessons from the district cantors Stefanie Pfender and Christoph Broer. After graduating from high school in 2017, he completed a two-year training programme to become a state-certified ensemble leader and C-church musician at the Berufsfachschule für Musik Bad Königshofen. Since 2019, he has been studying Protestant church music (Diplom-A) at the Weimar Music university in the organ classes of Prof. Martin Sturm and Prof. Silvius von Kessel.
He initially received choral conducting lessons from church music director Johannes Kleinjung and later from Prof. Jürgen Puschbeck. He is also a member of the university's chamber choir. Further lessons and masterclasses have taken him to Alexander Grychtolik, Edoardo Belotti, Hans-Ola Ericsson, Christoph Bossert and Martin Haselböck, among others. From October 2024, he will be moving to the Stuttgart Stiftskirche as assistant to the Stiftsmusik under Kay Johannsen. Jonas Dippon is a winner of the 2021 Herder Prize.
[19 June 2024]