Dantes Diwiak

Dante Diwiak is a singer of the vocal range Tenor. He was born in Yugoslavia, grew up in Germany and works mainly in Germany.

Life

Dante Diwiak studied after high school singing with Klaus Kirchner and completed an opera studies at the Musikhochschule Hannover Theo Altmeyer. He has participated in master classes with Hermann Reutter, Birgit Nilsson, Helmuth Rilling and Scot Weir. He was engaged at the Opera House Hannover and at opera houses in Bremen and Oldenburg.

He sang the role of the Evangelist in the Bach Passions and abroad, such as in Moscow, France, Syria and Israel. By Markus choir Hanover and the Hanover State Orchestra Diwiak sang 1982, the Oratorio de Noël by Camille Saint- Saëns. In 1983, he appeared in Rossini's Petite Messe Solenelle within the church as well as in Weber's day with Mass in E flat major. In 1989 he sang in Haydn's The Creation with the Harburg choir at St. John's Church in Harburg. He participated in choir concerts in the New Town Church, Hanover, with 1996 Stravinsky's Canticum sacrum, in 1988 Stravinsky 's Cantata and Mozart's Great Mass in C Minor, 1990 Bach's B Minor Mass, 1991, he was the Evangelist St. Matthew Passion at the last concert Kantor Erhard Egidi, with Anselm judge as Vox Christi, Monika Frimmer, Ralf Popken and Joachim Gebhardt. In 1994, a concert by the B-minor Mass was recorded live in St Peter's Church in Heidelberg. Gerald Kegelmann directed the Heidelberg Madrigal Choir, the Accademia Filarmonica Köln and the Trumpet Consort Friedemann Immer, it sang Veronika Winter, Kai Wessel and Raimund Nolte.

In 2007 he sang with the choir Markus Hanover Haydn Paukenmesse, Mozart's Coronation Mass and Mendelssohn's Elijah. With the northern Schleswig 's music association, he has led, among other things, Haydn's Missa in 2009 angustiis and Bach's cantata Erschallet, her songs, erklinget, her strings! on. In 2010 he was a soloist in a concert at the University of Hamburg in the oratory The bell of Max Bruch. He sang in St. Martin, Idstein, the tenor solo in Verdi's Messa da Requiem.

In 2002 he founded together with Monika Frimmer, Christa Bonhoff and Peter Kooij a quartet named Tanto Canto, the rare songs a cappella or with piano or ensemble lists. The quartet recorded in 2005 Excerpts from the ears and mind - vergnügendes - ergötzendes panel Confect (also Augsburger Tafel Confect called ) the composer Valentin Rathgeber and Johann Caspar Seyfert on, led by Jürgen Sonnentheil.

Dante Diwiak is married to the contralto Christa Bonhoff.