Peter K. Elkus

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

Life

Elkus studied at the University of Denver in the Faculty of Classical Singing with Marvin Warden and at the University of Colorado with Aksel Schiøtz (1906–1975), the Danish tenor. As a student he attended opera workshops with Boris Goldovsky in Denver and Wheeling (West Virginia) , as well as at Mannes College of Music and Hunter College in New York. Maria Callas chose him as a scholarship holder of the Juilliard Opera Theater .

After teaching in Vienna , he succeeded his late teacher Sebastian Engelberg at the Mannes College of Music in New York , where he worked at the faculty for over a decade. He was also a juror at the regional audition of the Metropolitan Opera and president of the examination committee of the Richard Wagner Foundation at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires .

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

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

Elkus' book The Telling of Our Truths - The Magic in Great Musical Performance , published in 2007, received reviews from Gerald Ginsberg (composer and poet), Charles Kaufman (past president of Mannes College of Music), Dalton Baldwin (pianist, accompanist, coach, Trainer, recording artist), Jean Luc Vannier (psychoanalyst, music critic, editor), Mut Asheru (editor-in-chief of “Unsigned - The Magazine”) and Shinji Eshima (instrumentalist and composer).

Litigation between Elkus and Elkus

In the legal dispute between Elkus and Elkus , Peter K. Elkus was the defendant: It was about assets and income in the marriage as well as the efforts made by Elkus in favor of the artistic market value of his wife. Litigation is often taught as a freshman case study in 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 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Flicka in 3/4 time . In: Opera News , 64th vol., No. 9, March 2000
  2. ↑ Elkus v. Elkus. Supreme Court of New York. 169 AD2d 134; 572 NYS2d 901 ( online reference )
personal data
SURNAME Elkus, Peter K.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American singing teacher
DATE OF BIRTH 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH San Francisco