David Erler (born 1981) is a German
countertenor, a male classical singer in the
alto vocal range, specialising in
Baroque music.
Career
Erler was born in
Auerbach (Vogtland). He attended the musical
gymnasium ''Clara-Wieck-Gymnasium'' in
Zwickau
Zwickau (; is, with around 87,500 inhabitants (2020), the fourth-largest city of Saxony after Leipzig, Dresden and Chemnitz and it is the seat of the Zwickau District. The West Saxon city is situated in the valley of the Zwickau Mulde (German: ...
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and studied at the
Musikhochschule Leipzig with Maria Jonas and mainly Marek Rzepka, on a scholarship of the
Hanns Seidel Foundation. He took masterclasses with
Andreas Scholl,
Marius van Altena and
The King’s Singers.
He graduated in 2006.
In the field of
historically informed performance, Erler has collaborated as a soloist with conductors such as
Manfred Cordes,
Laurence Cummings
Laurence Cummings (born 1968, Birmingham) is a British harpsichordist, organist, and conductor. He is currently music director of the Academy of Ancient Music.
Biography
Cummings was educated at Solihull School, Christ Church, Oxford and th ...
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Philippe Herreweghe
Philippe Maria François Herreweghe, Knight Herreweghe (born 2 May 1947) is a Belgian conductor and choirmaster.
Herreweghe founded La Chapelle Royale and Collegium Vocale Gent and is renowned as a conductor, with a repertoire ranging from Re ...
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Jos van Immerseel
Jos Van Immerseel (born 9 November 1945) is a Belgian harpsichordist, pianist and conductor.
Van Immerseel studied organ, piano and harpsichord at the Antwerp Conservatory under Flor Peeters, Eugène Traey and harpsichordist and musicolo ...
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Wolfgang Katschner,
Rudolf Lutz
Rudolf Lutz (born 1951) is a Swiss organist, harpsichordist, conductor and composer.
Education
Lutz studied at the Zurich University of the Arts, in Zürich and at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna.
Career
From 1973 he was ...
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Hermann Max
Hermann Max (born 1941 in Goslar) is a German choral conductor.
In 1977, he founded the Jugendkantorei Dormagen, which in 1985 became the basis of the Rheinische Kantorei and Das Kleine Konzert. In 1992 he founded the Knechtsteden Early Music Fes ...
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Gregor Meyer, Peter Neumann,
Hans-Christoph Rademann,
Ludger Rémy
Ludger Rémy (4 February 1949 – 21 June 2017) was a German harpsichordist, conductor and musicologist.
Biography
Born in Kalkar, Ludger Rémy studied the harpsichord in Freiburg im Breisgau and continued his studies with Kenneth Gilbert ...
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Gotthold Schwarz,
Jos van Veldhoven, Adam Viktora and
Roland Wilson. He has appeared as a guest singer with vocal ensembles
amarcord, Calmus Ensemble,
Singer Pur
Singer Pur is a German vocal sextet founded in 1991 by former members of the Regensburger Domspatzen. The five original members were joined by a soprano in 1994. The sextet is focussed on classical music, but who have also performed and recorded t ...
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Singphoniker and
Stimmwerck.
He is the chief editor of Johann Kuhnau's complete vocal works with
Breitkopf & Härtel
Breitkopf & Härtel is the world's oldest music publishing house. The firm was founded in 1719 in Leipzig by Bernhard Christoph Breitkopf.
The catalogue currently contains over 1,000 composers, 8,000 works and 15,000 music editions or books on ...
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He also published Jan Dismas Zelenka's Requiem (ZWV 46) with the same publishing company.
References
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Living people
German countertenors
German performers of early music
1981 births
21st-century German male singers