David Erler (born 1981) is a German countertenor, a male classical singer in the alto vocal range, specialising in Baroque music in historically informed performance.
He attended the musical gymnasium Clara-Wieck-Gymnasium in Zwickau,[1] and studied at the Musikhochschule Leipzig with Maria Jonas and mainly Marek Rzepka, on a scholarship of the Hanns Seidel Foundation, graduating in 2006.
[1] In 2013, Erler was one of the five guests of the ensemble amarcord for the performance of Monteverdi's Vespers as the annual Marienvesper of the Rheingau Musik Festival in Eberbach Abbey, with the Lautten Compagney conducted by Wolfgang Katschner.
[6] He recorded his first solo album in 2020, choosing rarely performed sacred music composed in Germany in the late 17th century, with L'arpa festante and Voskuilen.
A review of their complete recording of the works by Heinrich Schütz noted about the eight soloists performing Kleine geistliche Konzerte 1 (Little Sacred Concertos): "Whether solo, duo or in other combinations the voices are finely scaled, appropriately clear, purely focused and idiomatic".