Dantes Diwiak

Dantes Diwiak (born in Slovenia) is a tenor, who grew up and has worked mostly in Germany.

Professional career

Dantes Diwiak studied singing with Klaus Kirchner and opera at the Musikhochschule Hannover with Theo Altmeyer. He took master classes with Hermann Reutter, Birgit Nilsson, Helmuth Rilling and Scot Weir.^[1] He was a member of the Staatsoper Hannover and the opera houses of Bremen und Oldenburg.^[2]

Diwiak sang the part of the Evangelist in Bach's Passions also in Moscow, France, Syria and Israel, among others.^[2] He has collaborated with the choir MarkusChor Hannover and the Staatsorchester in concerts and services. In 1982 he performed with them the Oratorio de Noël of Camille Saint-Saëns, in 1983 he participated in Rossinis Petite Messe solennelle as part of the Kirchentag, also in Weber's Missa sancta No. 1 in E flat major.^[3] In 1989 he sang in Haydns Die Schöpfung with the Harburger Kantorei in the St. Johanniskirche in Harburg. In the Neustädter Kirche, Hannover, he sang in choral concerts, in 1996 Stravinsky's Canticum sacrum,^[4] in 1988 Stravinsky's Cantata and Mozart's Great Mass in C minor,^[5] in 1990 Bach's Mass in B minor,^[6] in 1991 he was the Evangelist in the St Matthew Passion in the last concert conducted by Erhard Egidi, together with Anselm Richter, Monika Frimmer, Ralf Popken and Joachim Gebhardt.^[7] In 1994 a concert of the Mass in B minor in the Peterskirche in Heidelberg was recorded. Gerald Kegelmann conducted the Heidelberger Madrigalchor, die Accademia Filarmonica Köln and the Trompeten-Consort Friedemann Immer, Veronika Winter, Kai Wessel and Raimund Nolte.^[8]

In 2007 Diwiak performed with the MarkusChor Hannover Haydn's Paukenmesse, Mozart's Krönungsmesse and Mendelssohns Elias.^[9] With the choir Nordschleswigsche Musikvereinigung he performed among others in 2009 Haydn's Missa in angustiis and Bach's cantata Erschallet, ihr Lieder, erklinget, ihr Saiten! BWV 172.^[10]

In 2002 Diwiak founded together with Monika Frimmer, Christa Bonhoff and Peter Kooy a quartet Tanto Canto to sing rarely performed music a cappella, with piano or with ensemble. The quartet recorded in 2005 excerpts from the collections Augsburger Tafel-Confect (short for: Ohren-vergnügendes und Gemüth-ergötzendes Tafel-Confect, in English: Augsburg Table Confectionery, Pleasuring the Ears and Delightful to the Soul) of the composers Valentin Rathgeber and Johann Caspar Seyfert.^[11][12] In 2010 he appeared in a concert of the Universität Hamburg in the oratorio Die Glocke of Max Bruch.^[1] In November 2010 he was the tenor soloist in Verdi's Messa da Requiem in St. Martin, Idstein.^[13]

Dantes Diwiak is married to the contralto Christa Bonhoff.

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "Das Lied von der Glocke" (in German). Universität Hamburg. 2010. http://www.uni-hamburg.de/akamusik/programmheft_2010_1.pdf. Retrieved 27 October 2010. 
2. ^ ^{a b} "Dantes Diwiak (Tenor)". bach-cantatas.com. 2009. http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Diwiak-Dantes.htm. Retrieved 27 October 2010. 
3. ^ "MarkusChor Chorwerke" (in German). MarkusChor Hannover. 2010. http://chor.markuskirche-hannover.de/Inhalt/chorwerke.htm. Retrieved 27 October 2010. 
4. ^ (in German) Canticum sacrum / Ein Deutsches Requiem. Neustädter Kirche. 16 November 1996. 
5. ^ (in German) 30 Jahre Kantorei der Neustädter Hof- und Stadtkirche St. Johannis zu Hannover. Neustädter Kirche. 20 November 1988. 
6. ^ (in German) J.S. Bach H-MOLL-MESSE. Neustädter Kirche. 27 May 1990. 
7. ^ (in German) Passion unseres Herrn Jesu Christi nach dem Evangelisten Matthäus. Neustädter Kirche. 10 March 1991. 
8. ^ "Heidelberger Madrigalchor CDs" (in German). Heidelberger Madrigalchor. 2010. http://www.heidelberger-madrigalchor.de/cds.htm. Retrieved 27 October 2010. 
9. ^ "MarkusChor Veranstaltungen Konzerte" (in German). MarkusChor Hannover. 2010. http://www.markuskirche-hannover.de/Inhalt/I_Veranstaltungen-Konzerte.htm. Retrieved 27 October 2010. 
10. ^ "Aus der Zeitung" (in German). Nordschleswigsche Musikvereinigung. 2010. http://www.musikvereinigung.dk/node/730. Retrieved 2 November 2010. 
11. ^ "Rathgeber: Tafel-confect". arkivmusic.com. 2005. http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp?album_id=108507. Retrieved 27 October 2010. 
12. ^ "Rathgeber (1682-1750) Augsburgisches Tafel-Confect". musicweb-international.com. 2006. http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2006/dec06/rathgeber_9999952.htm. Retrieved 31 October 2010. 
13. ^ Richard Hörnicke (16 November 2010). "Anspruchsvolle Aufgabe" (in German). Wiesbadener Tagblatt. http://www.wiesbadener-tagblatt.de/region/untertaunus/idstein/print_9636743.htm. Retrieved 16 November 2010. 

External links

• Literature by and about Dantes Diwiak in the German National Library catalogue
• Dantes Diwiak at Allmusic

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Name	Diwiak, Dantes
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Short description	Tenor
Date of birth	20th century
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