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Daniel Göritz was born in 1965 in East Berlin. From 1986 to 1991, he studied classical guitar with Inge Wilczok at the Academy of Music "Hanns Eisler" in Berlin, graduating with a first-class diploma. He continued his studies from 1991 to 1993 at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, U.K., where he earned a Professional Performance Diploma and a Master of Arts degree as a British Council Scholarship student under Gordon Crosskey and John Williams (visiting professor) for guitar and David Gilbert for composition. From 1994 to 1996, he pursued a Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the Manhattan School of Music in New York, where he was an assistant to David Starobin.
In 1999, Göritz returned to Berlin, where he serves as a professor of classical guitar at the renowned "Hanns Eisler" Academy of Music. He has won numerous prizes and stipends, including the contemporary music prize at the International Guitar Competition Kutna Hora in 1988, first prize at the Huddersfield International Composition Competition at Britain‘s most important contemporary music festival in 1994, a City of Berlin Composition Prize in 1995, and the 24th Artists International Competition (New York) in 1996 with the Zephyrus Duo, leading to their debut recital at New York‘s Carnegie Recital Hall in the 1997 season. He also received a composition stipend from the Academy of Arts and Letters Berlin from 2000 to 2002.
Göritz‘s activities span both classical and contemporary music, and he is active as an interpreter, composer, arranger and improviser. Since 1994, he has collaborated with flutist Sarah Hornsby in the prizewinning Zephyrus Duo. Since 1995, he has worked with Brazilian guitarist Daniel Wolff in a guitar duo that seeks to expand the traditional guitar repertoire through exciting new transcriptions of classical masterworks. Since 2006, he has collaborated with Mezzo soprano Bettina Bruns as Duo Udite, sometimes expanding to trios for certain programs (previously with double bass, cello, or harp).
A significant focus of Göritz‘s work lies in contemporary music, which, in addition to classical guitar, has often incorporated various electric guitars and electronics. This has also led to widespread activities as an ensemble and orchestra musician. Daniel Göritz regularly performs with some of the most distinguished orchestras and ensembles under the direction of numerous renowned conductors. His credits include performances with the Berlin Philharmonic (Sir Simon Rattle, Pierre Boulez, Matthias Pintscher), Deutsches Sinfonieorchester Berlin (Ingo Metzmacher, Kent Nagano), Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin (Vladimir Jurowski, Marek Janowski), Ensemble Modern (Peter Rundel), Staatskapelle Berlin, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Crosstown Ensemble New York, Absolute Ensemble New York, Ensemble Musikfabrik, Ensemble United Berlin, KNM Berlin, and Ensemble Quillo.
In the field of early music, he is the editor of 'Sonate d’intavolatura di leuto opera prima' – the collected lute works of the Italian baroque composer Giovanni Zamboni, published by Edition Peters. Further editions, arrangements, and original compositions are published by Edition Margaux and Verlag Neue Musik Berlin.

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