Choir director
David Cavelius
David Cavelius was born in Germany in 1985. He is a prizewinner of various competitions and was a scholarship holder of the Kunststiftung NRW.
He studied piano with Pavel Gililov, conducting with Rüdiger Bohn, composition with Johannes Schild and composition with Krzysztof Meyer in Cologne and Düsseldorf. Master classes took him to Andrea Bonnatta and Irwin Gage.
He studied piano with Pavel Gililov, conducting with Rüdiger Bohn, composition with Johannes Schild and composition with Krzysztof Meyer in Cologne and Düsseldorf. Master classes took him to Andrea Bonnatta and Irwin Gage.
From 2000 he was répétiteur of the Lower Rhine Concert Choir, for whose direction and rehearsal he was responsible in 2009/10. He has also conducted the German Radio Chamber Orchestra and the Lower Rhine Symphony Orchestra.
In 2004 he founded the chamber orchestra Apollon-Ensemble and in 2007 the CollegiumVocale Niederrhein. Since 2011, David Cavelius has been performing as a pianist with the Linden Quintet Berlin. Of his compositions, piano, chamber, choral and orchestral music has been performed, among others by the Lower Rhine Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonic Orchestra Hagen and the Badische Staatskapelle Karlsruhe. With the vocal ensemble St. Dionysius, David Cavelius recorded De profundis by Marcel Dupré for the label CORONA.
Since 2010 he has been a lecturer in accompaniment at the Cologne University of Music. Concerts as a pianist have taken him through Germany, Belgium, France, Italy, Austria, Russia, the Netherlands and Switzerland. Since April 2013 he has been choir director at the Komische Oper Berlin.