Maria Jonas

Maria Jonas (21 July 19?? – December 2024) was a German operatic mezzo-soprano.

Biography
Born in Brühl, she studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln. After that she went to Venezuela where she founded a music school. After her return to Europe she was trained by Jessica Cash in London;  as Monserrat Figueras in Barcelona and by René Jacobs at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel, Switzerland.

Jonas was specialized in early, contemporary and improvised music. She was a sought after concert-soloist and made European tours and went to Australia working with renowned conductors.

She founded the ensemble Ars Choralis Coeln in 2004. Jonas was a singing teacher at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig and at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen from 1999. She was also a guest lecturer at several conservatories, including in Tilburg, the Netherlands.

Jonas died in December 2024.

References

Other websites

  Maria Jonas at Ars Choralis Coeln 

Category:German singers
Category:European opera singers
Category:20th-century births
Category:2024 deaths
Category:People from North Rhine-Westphalia
Category:Place of death missing