Thorsten Pech | |
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 Thorsten Pech in front of the Elberfeld Cemetery | |
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| Born | 3 November 1960 Wuppertal, West Germany |
| Occupation | Church musician |
Thorsten Pech (born 3 November 1960) is a German church musician.
Thorsten Pech | |
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| Thorsten Pech in front of the Elberfeld Cemetery | |
| Background information | |
| Born | 3 November 1960 Wuppertal, West Germany |
| Occupation | Church musician |
Thorsten Pech (born 3 November 1960) is a German church musician.
Born in Wuppertal, Pech studied Protestant church music [1] at the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf from 1976 to 1980 with Hanns-Alfons Siegel (organ), Alberte Brun (piano), Hartmut Schmidt (choir direction). [2] After his postgraduate studies in organ and participation in various master classes (among others Daniel Roth, Anton Heiller) he passed his final examination in 1983 with Hans-Dieter Möller. [2] Pech completed his conducting studies in Vienna with Julius Kalmar in 1985 with a diploma. [1]
Since 1977, he has worked as a cantor and organist, first in Düsseldorf, since 1997 in Wuppertal-Elberfeld at the Alte lutherische Kirche am Kolk and the Friedhofskirche, since 2016 as full-time cantor at the aforementioned churches. [1] In 1992, Pech also took up freelance work as a concert organist and conductor, which has led him through numerous concert engagements at home and abroad. [2]
Since 1989 he has been artistic director and choir director at the Bachverein Düsseldorf , and in 2003 he took over as conductor of the concert choir of the Kulturgemeinde Volksbühne Wuppertal. [3] In 1998 he was awarded the title music director by the Fachverband der Chorleiter . [4] In 2016, he was a laureate of the Enno und Christa Springmann-Stiftung . [5]
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