Daniel Barke

Daniel Barke works as a lecturer for jazz choir, ensemble conducting and composition (vocal). He is artistic director of the Young Voices Brandenburg (state youth pop choir) and the Kicks&Sticks Voices Hessen (state youth big band). He also conducts jazz choirs at the University of Music and Theatre "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig and at the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar. Barke is the founder of VOXID (www.youtube.com/voxidmusic). 

After specialising in music, he studied jazz saxophone with Michael Arnold, Uwe Plath and Johannes Enders at the Landesschule Pforta in Leipzig. As the founder of various award-winning vocal ensembles, including MundArt, tonalrausch and VOXID, he also became known on the international vocal scene through his participation in the vocal group Juicebox. Barke currently performs as a freelance musician and guest artist with ensembles such as The New York Voices (USA) and Accent (USA, CAN, SWE, UK, FR). As a saxophonist, he graduated from the Leipzig University of Music and Theatre with Prof. Richie Beirach in 2012.

Through his extensive musical projects and awards at international vocal competitions (including Vokal Total Graz (Austria), Aarhus Vocal Festival (Denmark), Internat. A Cappella Competition Taipei in Taiwan), Barke has increasingly become a sought-after lecturer for contemporary a cappella music. The lecturer, who has extensive training in both classical music and jazz, has now worked for numerous national and international institutes, where he has conducted workshops and work phases, including numerous state music councils, music academies, state choir associations and the Federal Academy of Music in Wolfenbüttel.

As a music producer, Barke has recorded and released several vocal albums and single tracks as a multi-instrumentalist. Of these, the vocal album "Shades Of Light" by VOXID, which won several awards in the USA in 2018 for its audio and video production, is particularly noteworthy. (https://www.rarb.org/reviews/albums/1712-shades-of-light/) 

In addition to his own ensembles, Daniel Barke has also written vocal arrangements for amarcord, sjaella, Quintense, Jazzchor Dresden, Psychochor Jena and numerous other contemporary vocal ensembles. Under his YouTube channel All-You-Can-Eat-Musiktheorie, the Leipzig-based musician offers a wide range of educational and artistic videos, with podcasts, webinars, online workshops, arrangement videos, music video clips and some insights into his freelance work as a speaker. (www.youtube.com/allyoucaneat-musiktheorie)