Collegium Musicum Weimar

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"

-> To the program booklet

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

Book online tickets for June 29 here

Book online tickets for July 1 here

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.

Lisa Schmidt, soprano

Soprano Lisa Schmidt is studying for her master's degree in opera singing at the HfM Weimar in the class of Prof. Siegfried Gohritz and received important impulses in international master classes by Barbara Hannigan and Lise Davidsen. In 2024 she was a scholarship holder of the Bayreuth Festival, where she was selected to participate in the scholarship concert in Bayreuth.

In 2024, she sang the role of Contessa in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro at Theater Rudolstadt and the supporting program of the Richard Wagner Stätten Graupa for the Semperoper production of Tristan und Isolde. She also made her debut as Gretel in Humperdinck's opera Hänsel und Gretel with the Jena Philharmonic Orchestra and as a guest at Theater Erfurt.

Lisa Schmidt is also very active in the field of lieder. She sang Wagner's Wesendonck Lieder for the first time in 2022 in a concert by the Jena Philharmonic Orchestra.

Veronika Tokareva, mezzo-soprano

Veronika Tokareva made her debut in summer 2024 as Gertrud in Gounod's "Roméo et Juliette" at the Immling Opera Festival and at the opening of the 2024/25 season as Amneris in Verdi's Aida at Theater Pforzheim. She made her German debut in 2022 as Jezibaba in "Rusalka" by A. Dvořák at the Theater Plauen/Zwickau. In February 2024, she will be Cherubino in "Le nozze di Figaro" in Rudolstadt. She has previously performed at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, with the Novosibirsk Philharmonic Orchestra and the Jena Philharmonic Orchestra.

Veronika Tokareva was accepted into the Mariinsky Theater's Academy for Young Singers in 2012.

This was followed by roles such as Olga in "Eugene Onegin", Pauline in "Queen of Spades", Flora in "La Traviata", the Witch in "Hansel and Gretel" and Noble Orphan in "Der Rosenkavalier".

Veronika began her studies at the HfM FRANZ LISZT Weimar in 2019.

She has worked with renowned singers, directors and conductors such as Johannes Martin Kränzle, Brigitte Fassbänder, Anna Sofia von Otter and others.

Felix Stöppler, tenor

The tenor, who grew up in Münsterland, began his vocal training at the age of 11. He has been studying at the HfM Franz Liszt Weimar with Prof. Michael Gehrke since 2020. In the same year, he won the Walter Kaminsky Foundation sponsorship prize in the final of the German National Singing Competition in Berlin and two years later won first prize in the Lions Music Prize competition. In 2022, he sang at the Bach Biennale Weimar, made his role debut as Eisenstein in the university production of the HfM Franz Liszt Weimar in April 2023 and previously had his first guest contract at the Theater Altenburg/Gera as Franz in J. Offenbach's "The Tales of Hoffmann". He regularly performs in opera galas in collaboration with the Thüringer Sinfoniker and is very familiar with works from Bach to Schubert as a concert singer. At the beginning of the year, he performed the role of Seppel in the children's opera "Der Räuber Hotzenplotz" at the Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar and also had his first concert tour in Spain the following year. He was recently accepted into the German National Academic Foundation and will sing the tenor role in Benjamin Britten's "War Requiem" in the middle of this year.

Joel Andreasson, bariton

Joel Andreasson comes from Gothenburg in Sweden. He is currently studying for a Master's degree in singing at the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar with Prof. Michael Gehrke. Before studying in Germany, Joel Andreasson studied at the Vadstena Vocal & Piano Academy in Sweden with Anders Düring. There he placed great emphasis on the classical song repertoire. During his studies, he received a number of prizes and scholarships, including the Göta Par Bricole Scholarship for Singing and 2nd prize at district level at the Lions Music Prize Classical Singing 2022. Joel Andreasson's opera repertoire includes roles such as Count Almaviva in Mozart's "Le Nozze di Figaro", Guglielmo in "Così fan Tutte", David in Samuel Barber's "A Hand of Bridge" and the 2nd Boy in Leonard Bernstein's "Trouble in Tahiti". For the world premiere of Giordano Bruno Do Nascimento's opera "Mother", he took on the role of the civil servant. Joel Andreasson appears regularly as a concert singer. He took part in the performance of all cantatas as the bass soloist in the Christmas Oratorio in Weimar in 2022 under Ton Koopmann. He also sang the baritone part in the world premiere of Christian K. Frank's choral symphonic work "...der Herr hat's genommen..." for baritone, choir, orchestra and electronics.

Artistic director

P. Mauricio Sotelo-Romero has been director of the Collegium Musicum Weimar since 2023 and is a scholarship holder of the German Music Council's Conducting Forum. Since 2019 he has been studying orchestral conducting in the class of Prof. Pasquet, Prof. Wycik and, since October 2024, Johannes Klumpp at the HfM Franz Liszt. He was also a Bayreuth scholarship holder 2024 from the Richard Wagner Association Weimar.

His most recent projects include his debut with the Orchestre Symphonique de Mulhouse, the musical direction of a new production of Bizet's "Carmen" at the Teatro Ló pez de Ayala in Badajoz or his work as musical assistant in the production of Parsifal with the Spanish National Orchestra under the direction of D. Afkham and in A. Berg's Wozzeck at the Theater Chemnitz under the direction of GMD Guillermo G. Calvo. His work as musical assistant in the excavation of J. Raff's opera Samson in 2022 at the Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar under the direction of Dominik Beykirch was also very formative. He celebrated his opera debut in 2022 with Mozart's Così fan tutte at the Landestheater Coburg.

His upcoming projects include his engagement at the Gran Teatre del Liceu as musical assistant for the opera Lohengrin under the direction of J. Pons and in a production by K. Wagner in February and March 2025.

Further information

Contact

Milea Henning, Organizational Management

Mail: collegiumweimar(at)gmail.com 

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