Dantes Diwiak

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

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. He was a member of the Staatsoper Hannover and the opera houses of Bremen and Oldenburg.

Diwiak sang the part of the Evangelist in Bach's Passions also in Moscow, France, Syria and Israel, among others. 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. In 1989, he sang in Haydn's Die Schöpfung with the Harburger Kantorei in the St. Johanniskirche in Harburg, Hamburg. In the Neustädter Kirche, Hannover, he sang in choral concerts, in 1986 Stravinsky's Canticum sacrum, in 1988 Stravinsky's Cantata and Mozart's Great Mass in C minor, in 1990 Bach's Mass in B minor, 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. In 1994, a concert of the Mass in B minor in the Peterskirche in Heidelberg was recorded. Gerald Kegelmann conducted the Heidelberger Madrigalchor, the Accademia Filarmonica Köln and the Trumpet Consort Friedemann Immer (), Veronika Winter, Kai Wessel and Raimund Nolte.