Dirk Uka now lives in Berlin
1984-87 guitar lessons (Beechwood music school, Buchholz)
1987-92 self-taught on blues and rock guitar
1992-1994 Classical guitar lessons (Gert Petersen)
1993-1994 Lessons in music history and theory at the Johannes Brahms Conservatory, Hamburg (Jürgen Braubach)
1994-2001 Studies at the University of Music Lübeck, especially: classical guitar (Prof. Albert Aigner), choral conducting (Prof. Gerd Müller-Lorenz) and musicology (Prof. Dr. Volker Scherliess)
Guitarist, bassist and singer in various band projects in northern Germany and Berlin
Since 1999, conductor of various choirs, including at the Evangelical Reformed Church in Lübeck (where he has performed works by Bach, Fasch, Fauré, Mendelssohn Bartholdy and his own compositions), at the Bahn-Sozialwerk, Lübeck, and the children's and youth choirs at the Spandau Music School, Berlin