Peter Elkus

Peter K. Elkus (* 1939 in San Francisco) is an international singing teacher who gives master classes for singers and instrumentalists.

Life

Elkus graduated from the University of Denver at the Faculty of classical singing with Marvin Warden and at the University of Colorado at Aksel Schiøtz (1906-1975), the Danish tenor. As a student, he attended opera workshops with Boris Goldovsky in Denver and Wheeling (West Virginia), and at the Mannes College of Music and at Hunter College in New York. Maria Callas chose him as fellows of the Juilliard Opera Theater.

After teaching in Vienna, he succeeded his deceased teacher Sebastian Engelberg at the Mannes College of Music in New York, where he worked for over a decade on the faculty. He was also a judge at the Regional auditions of the Metropolitan Opera and Chairman of the Audit Committee of the Richard Wagner Foundation of the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires.

His master classes were presented in ten countries, including at the Academy of Music in Vienna, the Munich State Opera, the Music Academy Ottorino Respighi in Assisi and Rome, the Théâtre des Champs- Élysées in Paris, and the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires.

1967 Frederica von Stade was at the Mannes College Elkus a student. They married in 1973. The marriage ended in divorce in 1990, are derived from two daughters. Peter Elkus taught his wife from 1975 to 1985, as their common teacher Sebastian Engelberg ( † 1979) had to give up work due to illness. In an article in the magazine Opera News Donald Spoto refers to Elkus ' influence on von Stade: " ... led them through the thicket of a constantly growing repertoire and a strict global schedule. "

Elkus published in 2007 book The Telling of Our Truths - The Magic in Great Musical Performance reviews received from Gerald Ginsberg ( composer and poet ), Charles Kaufman (former President at the Mannes College of Music), Dalton Baldwin ( pianist, accompanist, coach, instructor, recording artist ), Jean Luc Vannier ( psychoanalyst, music critic, lecturer ), courage Asheru (chief editor of " Unsigned - The Magazine " ) and Shinji Eshima ( instrumentalist and composer ).

Litigation against Elkus Elkus

The dispute Elkus against Elkus was Peter K. Elkus the Defendant: It was about wealth and income in the marriage as well as the through the efforts of Elkus in favor of the artistic market value of his wife. The dispute is often taught as a case study in the first year of study at American law schools.

Publication

• The Telling of Our Truths. The Magic in Great Musical Performance. USA 2007, new edition 2009, ISBN 978-0-615-27199-6