Peter Elkus

Who is Peter Elkus?

Peter Elkus is a voice teacher giving master classes for both singers and instrumentalists.

His classes have been presented in 10 countries including University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, the Munich State Opera, the Accademia Musicale Ottorino Respighi in Assisi and Rome, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris and the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires.

He was asked to assume the vacancy created by the death of his teacher, Sebastian Engelberg at the Mannes College of Music where he was listed on the faculty for over a decade. He has been judge of the Regional Auditions of the Metropolitan Opera and President of the panel of judges for the Richard Wagner Foundation, Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires.

He has authored the well received book The Telling of Our Truths - The Magic in Great Musical Performance with comments by Gerald Ginsberg, Dr. Charles Kaufman, Dalton Baldwin, Jean Luc Vannier Mut Asheru and Shinji Eshima.