Program and dates in the summer semester 2026
Rehearsal dates
Weekly rehearsal: Wednesdays from 08.04.2025, 18:45 - 21:30
Rehearsal weekend: Fri, 12.06.2026 - Sun, 14.06.2026
Concert dates
Sat, 04.07.2026, Schießhaus Weimar
Sun, 05.07.2026, Schießhaus Weimar
Registration
Click here for the registration link for the 2026 summer semester.
Programme
Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Theme and Variations, Op. 42
Robert Schumann: Concert Piece for Four Horns in F major, Op. 86
Antonín Dvořák: Symphony No. 7 in D minor, Op. 70
This semester's program opens with Theme & Variations, Op. 42, by Erich W. Korngold. It marks Korngold's last completed original composition and is a work in which his affinity for film music is clearly audible.
A stylistic leap then takes us to Robert Schumann. The valve horn, which made chromatic playing possible, had only been around for about 30 years when Robert Schumann composed his Concert Piece for Four Horns and Orchestra, Op. 86. In this work, Schumann took full advantage of the new possibilities offered by the instrument, placing great technical demands on all soloists. We are delighted to perform this work together with Prof. Jörg Brückner and three of his students.
The program concludes with Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No. 7 in D minor, Op. 70. While working on the symphony, he wrote: “I am currently working on a new symphony, and everywhere I think of nothing else but my new work, which must have the power to move the whole world, and God grant that it will be so.” And indeed, the premiere of this symphony was one of Dvořák's greatest successes and brought him great recognition. Of his nine symphonies, the Seventh is probably the most tragic and dramatic.
Ensemble
The Collegium Musicum Weimar, founded in 1994, grew out of the desire of students of school music to perform demanding symphonic works themselves in an orchestra. Prof. Michael Berg was the first conductor to lead the Collegium before it was placed in the hands of the students of the Department of Conducting and Opera Correpetition.
The Collegium was incorporated into the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar as an official university ensemble at the beginning of the winter semester 2018 and now consists largely of students of music education and musicology. The musical rehearsal work is enriched by students from the Bauhaus University Weimar, the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, the University of Erfurt and the Leipzig Conservatory as well as professional amateur musicians from all over Thuringia.
Artistic director - Sebastian Ickstadt
Sebastian Ickstadt has been studying orchestral conducting at the HfM Weimar with Prof Ekhart Wycik and Prof Gregor Bühl since 2024, and previously also with Dominik Beykirch. At the same time, he completed his studies in opera correpetition with Prof Hans-Christian Steinhöfel. He gained his first conducting experience with Johannes Klumpp.
During his studies, he already worked with renowned orchestras such as the Jena Philharmonic Orchestra, the Hof Symphony Orchestra and the Thuringia Philharmonic Orchestra Gotha-Eisenach. He has also worked at the Anhaltisches Theater Dessau, the Erfurt Theatre and the Chemnitz Theatre. He received important impulses from masterclasses with Nicolas Pasquet, Johannes Schlaefli, Johannes Klumpp and Otto Tausk.
He has also performed as a pianist in several symphony concerts at the university and worked with renowned conductors such as Ton Koopman, Simon Gaudenz, Vladimir Jurowski and Ekhart Wycik. In 2025 he is a scholarship holder of the Richard Wagner Association Frankfurt.
Organisational management - Pauline Hüls
Pauline Hüls is the organisational director of the Collegium Musicum Weimar. She studies musicology and intercultural music and event management at the University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar. She gained practical experience in areas such as concert organisation and programme design at the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival. In addition to her coordinating duties in the orchestra, she also plays in the cello section.
Symphony concerts in the winter semester 2025/26
Programme - absolute magical
Johannes Brahms: Concerto in D major for violin and orchestra op. 77(Soloist: Hannah Kim)
Engelbert Humperdinck: Concert overture to the opera "Königskinder"
Pjotr Iljitsch Tschaikowski: Swan Lake Suite
Collegium Musicum Weimar | Sebastian Ickstadt, Dirigent | Hannah Kim, Soloist
Fri, 06.02.2026, 7:00 pm, Schießhaus Weimar
Sat, 07.02.2026, 7:00 pm, Schießhaus Weimar
This semester, we will begin with the violin concerto by Johannes Brahms. This was composed in 1878 in close collaboration with the violinist and friend Joseph Joachim. The solo concerto has a certain "symphonic" ambition, which aims not only at the virtuosity of the violin, but also at the fusion and equality of solo voice and orchestra. Pyotr Tchaikovsky and Engelbert Humperdinck, who composed fairy-tale worlds and stories, open up completely different musical worlds. The concert overture to Humperdinck's opera Königskinder introduces this fairytale world of sound. At the centre of Humperdinck's oeuvre is Hansel and Gretel - the fairytale opera par excellence. His subsequent opera Königskinder receives less attention. The opera not only deals with fairy tales, but also symbolically deals with current and realistic themes. Of course, Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake should not be missing from fantastic legends. The suite of the winter ballet includes the most important scenes from the story of the enchanted Odett.
Symphony concerts in summer semester 2025
Of freedom and wanderlust
Ethel Smyth Overture to The Wreckers
Witold Lutosławski Little Suite (Mała suita)
Jean Sibelius Finlandia op. 26
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Sinfonie Nr. 3 »Schottische« in a-Moll op. 56
Collegium Musicum Weimar | Sebastian Ickstadt, conductor
Friday, June 27, 2024, 7:30 pm, Schießhaus Weimar
Saturday, June 28, 2024, 7:30 pm, Schießhaus Weimar
Admission from 19:00
Online tickets for the concert on June 27, 2024
Online tickets for the concert on June 28, 2024
Tickets at 8 euros, reduced 5 euros (university members against thoska 3 euros) are also available at the Tourist Information Weimar and at the box office.
Concerts in winter semester 2024/25
Antonín Dvořák: Stabat Mater, op. 58
Lisa Schmidt, soprano | Veronika Tokareva, alto | Felix Stöppler, tenor | Joel Andreasson, bass | Collegium Musicum Weimar | Kammerchor of the Franz Liszt University of Music Weimar | P. Mauricio Sotelo-Romero, conductor
Friday, January 31, 2025, 7 p.m., St. Thomas Church Erfurt
Saturday, February 01, 2025, 6 p.m., Herderkirche Weimar
Free entry
Symphony concerts in summer semester 2024
Anniversary concerts
Christoph Willibald Gluck: "Alceste Overture"
Ludwig van Beethoven: "9th Symphony, 1st movement"
Richard Wagner: "Lohengrin, Three Excerpts"
Anton Bruckner: "Symphonisches Präludium"
The various works are framed by texts of prose and poetry.
Lisa Schmidt, soprano | Kaine Hayward, tenor | Markus Fennert, speaker | Collegium Musicum Weimar | P. Mauricio Sotelo-Romero, conductor
Wednesday, 19 June 2024, 8:00 pm, Ilm-Insel Tiefurt
Admission from 7:30 pm
Further information and tickets for the concert on 19 June in Tiefurt.
Friday, June 28, 2024, 7:30 pm, Schießhaus Weimar
Saturday, June 29, 2024, 7:30 pm, Schießhaus Weimar
Admission from 19:00
Online tickets for the concert on June 28, 2024
Online tickets for the concert on June 29, 2024
Tickets at 8 euros, reduced 5 euros (university members against thoska 3 euros) are also available at the Tourist Information Weimar and at the box office.
Symphony concerts in winter semester 2023/24
The Collegium Musicum Weimar once again invites you to two symphony concerts at the end of January 2024:
New Worlds
Franz Schubert: Overture to the opera "Alfonso and Estrella" D 732
Joaquín Rodrigo: Concierto Andaluz for four guitars and orchestra with the "Cantum Guitar Quartet"
Antonín Dvořák: 9th Symphony in E minor op. 95 "From the New World"
Cantum Guitar Quartet | Collegium Musicum Weimar | P. Mauricio Sotelo-Romero, conductor
Friday, 26 January 2024, 7:30 p.m., Schießhaus Weimar
Saturday, 27 January 2024, 7:30 p.m., Schießhaus Weimar
Admission from 7:00 p.m. in each case
Online tickets for the concert on 26 January
Online tickets for the concert on 27 January
Tickets at 8 euros, reduced 5 euros (university members against thoska 3 euros) also available at the Tourist Information Weimar and at the box office.
Symphony concerts in the summer semester 2023
Love * Elegance * Passion
Thursday, 29 June 2023
Schießhaus Weimar
7:30 p.m.
Saturday, 1 July 2023
mon ami Weimar
7:30 p.m.
Yu-En Chen, Oboe | Collegium Musicum Weimar | P. Mauricio Sotelo-Romero, Conductor
R. Wagner - Tristan und Isolde, Vorspiel
W.A. Mozart - Oboenkonzert C-Dur KV 314
J. Sibelius - Sinfonie Nr. 6 d-Moll op. 104
Tickets at 8 and 5 euros as well as 3-euro tickets for university members at the Tourist Information Weimar
Contact
Pauline Hüls - Organizational Management
Mail: collegiumweimar(at)gmail.com
Postal address:
University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar
Ms. Christiane Kraft
Platz der Demokratie 2/3
99423 Weimar
Germany
