Sheet music by David Cavelius

David Cavelius was born in 1985 in Saarland. He has won prizes in various competitions and was a scholarship holder of the Kunststiftung NRW.

David Cavelius studied piano with Pavel Gililov in Cologne and Düsseldorf, conducting with Rüdiger Bohn, composition with Johannes Schild and composition with Krzysztof Meyer. Master classes led him to Andrea Bonnatta and Irwin Gage.

From 2000 he was répétiteur of the Niederrheinischer Konzertchor, for whose direction and rehearsal he was responsible in 2009/10. He also conducted the Deutsches Radio-Kammerorchester and the Niederrheinische Sinfoniker.

In 2004 he founded the Chamber Orchestra Apollon-Ensemble and in 2007 the CollegiumVocale Niederrhein. Since 2011 David Cavelius has been playing the piano with the Linden Quintet Berlin.

His compositions include piano, chamber, choir and orchestral music, performed by the Niederrheinische Sinfoniker, the Philharmonische Orchester Hagen and the Badische Staatskapelle Karlsruhe, among others. David Cavelius De profundis of Marcel Dupré recorded with the vocal ensemble St. Dionysius for the label CORONA.

Since 2010 he has held a teaching position for accompaniment at the Musikhochschule Köln. 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.