Łódź Philharmonic Choir & Dawid Ber
Biography Łódź Philharmonic Choir & Dawid Ber
Dawid Ber
graduated in Music Theory in the class of Professor Franciszek Wesołowski and completed the Vocal and Vocal-Instrumental Ensemble Direction Program at the Academy of Music in Łódź (1998).
In 2000 he completed with honours the Post-graduate Choirmaster Study Program at the Feliks Nowowiejski Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz. In 2005 he earned his Ph.D. title in conducting at the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw.
In 1995-1999 he was engaged full time in the Artur Rubinstein Łódź Philharmonic Choir. In 1996-1998 he taught and conducted at the Henryk Wieniawski General Primary and Secondary Music School in Łódź. He has continued teaching since 1998 at the Stanisław Moniuszko Music School Complex in Łódź. He was also a teacher at High school no. 6 in Łódź, the State Primary and Secondary Music School in Piotrków Trybunalski and in the Private Secondary Music School at the Polish Music Institute.
In 2004–2011 Ber was the vice-principal in the Stanisław Moniuszko State Music School Complex in Łódź. Since 2008 he has been employed at the Faculty of Artistic Education at the Grażyna and Kiejstut Bacewicz Academy of Music in Łódź, where he is an assistant lecturer in the conducting class.
He has led the mixed choir of the Christian Baptist Church in Łódź without interruption since 1992. In 1996 he established and went on to lead for eight years the “Alla Camera” Vocal Ensemble. Also in 1996 he became the artistic director and conductor of the “Lutnia” Singers’ Association in Zgierz, which he continues to lead to date. In 2002–2005 he led the Teachers’ Choir in Łódź.
He is the conductor of the “Vivid Singers” Chamber Choir since 2005. In the 2010/2011 season he worked together with the Mixed Choir of the Artur Rubinstein Łódź Philharmonic. In 2011 he took over the post of choir master of the Łódź Philharmonic Choir.
Together with his choirs Ber received a number of awards and distinctions at numerous festivals and competitions in Poland and abroad. He conducted many concerts in Poland, Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, the Czech Republic, Italy and Lithuania.
