Collegium Musicum Weimar

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.

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.

Soprano Lisa Schmidt has been studying for her Master's degree in opera singing at the HfM Weimar in the class of Prof. Siegfried Gohritz since 2022. She received important impulses from the famous singers Barbara Hannigan and Lise Davidsen, with whom she was able to work in masterclasses after international pre-selections.

She is also a scholarship holder of the Bayreuth Festival 2024.

Lisa has already achieved several musical successes. In 2024, for example, she sang the role of Contessa in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro as a guest at Theater Rudolstadt and the supporting program of the Richard Wagner Sites Graupa for the Semperoper Dresden's opera production of Tristan und Isolde.

She has already made her debut as Gretel in Humperdinck's opera Hansel and Gretel with the Jena Philharmonic Orchestra, as a guest at the Erfurt Theater and in the leading roles in the world premieres of the operas "Mutter" and "Antiliebestrank", composed by G. B. Do Nascimento.
Lisa Schmidt is also very active in the field of lieder and regularly gives recitals. She sang the cycle of Wesendonck Lieder by Richard Wagner for the first time in November 2022 in a concert by the Jena Philharmonic Orchestra.

Kaine Hayward was born in Sydney, Australia, and has been active as an opera singer since 2013. He has sung many tenor roles internationally, including Tamino (The Magic Flute), Don José (Carmen), Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly), Cavaradossi (Tosca), Rodolfo (La Bohème), Narraboth (Salome) and Pang (Turandot). His concert repertoire includes works by various composers such as G.F. Händel, J.S. Bach and G. Rossini.

In addition to his work as a singer, he is also known throughout Europe as a singing teacher. His students have sung as soloists on renowned stages worldwide, including the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Komische Oper Berlin, Arena di Verona, the Hungarian State Opera, Theater Kiel, Theater Bremen, DNT Weimar, Theater Gera, Navoi Opera House, Folkoperan Stockholm, Theatro São Pedro, Opera Australia and English National Opera. Kaine is also a coach and singing teacher at the Lyric Opera Studio Weimar and the Brandenburg Opera Retreat.

P. Mauricio Sotelo-Romero was born in San Lorenzo de El Escorial (Spain) and has been studying orchestral conducting in the class of Prof. Nicolás Pasquet and Prof. Ekhart Wycik at the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar since 2019. Previously, he lived in Berlin, where he received his first conducting training with Alexander Gelovani, as well as lessons in violin, piano and harpsichord. He conducted his first concert at the age of 16 as part of a master class with Finnish conductor Jorma Panula. 

Because of his fondness for opera, he has participated in new productions of operas such as "Tristan und Isolde" and "Lohengrin" in Brussels, Barcelona and Salzburg - learning from conductors such as Christian Thielemann and Josep Pons. In January 2022, he conducted his first own opera performance with "Così fan tutte" at the Landestheater Coburg. He has also gained much experience as a violinist in chamber music and orchestral playing, including as concertmaster of the Youth Ensemble for New Music Berlin in 2017 and 2018.