Erke Duit

Erke Duit (born December 30, 1957 in Bremen ) is a German conductor , composer and leader of several choirs and ensembles.

Life

After graduating from high school, Duit completed a degree at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna - church music with a focus on choral conducting (with Hans Gillesberger , Erwin Ortner ), music and church composition (with Erich Romanovsky ), media composition (with Paul Kont ), conducting (with Karl Österreicher ) and at Biola College, Los Angeles (scholarship; organ with Charles Shaffer ).

He is the father of a son and a daughter. Since 2005 he has been teaching musical interpretation and role design at the Vienna Conservatory .

1992 cantata Hödlmoser, text: Reinhard P. Gruber For steirischer herbst
1994 Setting of texts by HC Artmann for Lower Austria. Danube Festival
1995 The library of Babel, together with Fritz Rainer and Wolfgang Huber
1997 Celentano arrangements, for La Cappella Vienna, performed in the cabaret Simpl
1998 Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten, chamber orchestra work
1999 orchestral work KINDER for Karl Friedrich Flick
2000 cantata adam.eva.aus with the choir Gegenstimmen
2001 Waldviertler Suite for 34 wind instruments (performed with the GRENZBLÄSERN)
2002 Hohes Haus Musik, setting of the black and blue government declaration, world premiere in the Austrian Parliament with the choir Gegenstimmen
2003 Brandner Kaspar, a theater music for vocal quartet (performed by the SCHLEICHQUARTETT)
2005 Give me the ball, a full-length globalization cantata with the choir Gegenstimmen

320 rock concerts as a singer / pianist with the group "Robin" (tour West USA), since 1981 freelance composer and musician. Musical director or composer / pianist: 1981–1988 Volkstheater (Vienna) , Theater in der Josefstadt , Theater d. Jugend (Vienna) , Kammerspiele, Theater Akzent, dietheater Künstlerhaus, Salzburger Landestheater as well as in various other theaters in Germany and Austria, choir leader of the opposing voices since 1992, 2001 conductor of the siren opera theater , 2006 as musical director at the Schlossspiele Kobersdorf ( Brecht / Weill / Threepenny Opera ) and the Waldviertel Court Theater in Pürbach near Schrems .

1985–1995 director of the Neue Streicher ensemble (well over 100 concerts with numerous world premieres)
1995–2002 director of the Capella Nova Klosterneuburg (chamber orchestra)
Head of the Camerata Vienna since 1990
Musical director of the folk art orchestra
Musical director of the Waldviertel Court Orchestra (Grenzbläser)

Numerous recordings on CD, MC, LP for ORF (radio + TV)

Lecturer for advanced pop ensemble at the VEREINTEN STIMMEN for the summer semester 2005.
Since 1994 Duit has directed the Vienna political choir Gegenstimmen .

personal data
SURNAME	Duit, Erke
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German conductor, composer and choir director
DATE OF BIRTH	December 30, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bremen