Ernst Munneke studied with Alan Weiss, Jan Wijn and Håkon Austbø at the conservatories of Utrecht and Amsterdam. He specialised in song accompaniment with Rudolf Jansen and took master classes with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. In 2003, he was a finalist in the Schubert Competition in Graz and also won first prize at the Internationaler Hans Gabor Belvedere Wettbewerb für Opern-Korrepetition in Vienna.
He has an intensive concert practice with many singers and instrumentalists, has given concerts throughout Europe, the United States, Mexico and Curaçao and has participated in festivals in Schwarzenberg (Austria), Tanglewood (Massachusetts, USA), Manchester (Vermont, USA) and Brevard (North Carolina, USA). He can be heard, among others, on the Edison-winning debut CD Corazon by mezzo-soprano Tania Kross (Philips), with whom he also performed in the Rising Stars series in which they gave concerts in Amsterdam (Concertgebouw), Vienna (Musikverein), Salzburg, Paris, Cologne, Athens, Brussels, Birmingham and New York (Carnegie Hall).
In 2006, the CD Zomerreis was released on the Deutsche Grammophon label, on which he accompanies tenor Marcel Beekman in a version of Schubert's translated by Jan Rot Die Schöne Müllerin.
