Dan Zerfaß
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Dan Zerfaß (born 1968) is a German classical organist, the
cantor at the Worms Cathedral
and academic teacher.
Career
Born in
Hochschule für Musik Frankfurt, finishing in 1992 with top honors as a church musician and graduating in 1993 as a recital organist. Influential teachers were Edgar Krapp (organ), Wolfgang Schäfer (choral and orchestral conducting) and Godehard Joppich (Gregorian chant). He took master classes with Daniel Roth, Wolfgang Rübsam and Guy Bovet (organ), Egidius Doll, Peter Planyavsky and Theo Brandmüller (organ improvisation) and Günther Ludwig (piano).[1]
In 1989, Zerfaß became cantor at St. Albert in Frankfurt and in 1996 the regional cantor at St. Bonifatius in Bad Nauheim. Since 1999, he has been the cantor at the
Diocese of Mainz
and works in the artistic direction of the Internationale Orgelfestwochen (International organ weeks) of the festival Kultursommer Rheinland-Pfalz (Cultural Summer of Rhineland-Palatinate).
As a composer, he participated in the project Mainzer Bistumsmesse (Mass of the Diocese of Mainz), a collaboration of six regional cantors to create a mass in German for choir, a high voice (children's choir or soprano) and organ. He composed Herr, erbarme dich, Nicolo Sokoli Ehre sei Gott, Thomas Gabriel Ich glaube an Gott, Andreas Boltz Gottheit tief verborgen, Ralf Stiewe Heilig, Ruben J. Sturm Lamm Gottes.[2]
He recorded the complete organ works by Robert Schumann and works by Petr Eben, among others.
References
- ^ a b "Dan Zerfaß" (in German). Worms Cathedral. 2011. Retrieved 2 October 2012.
- ^ "Mainzer Bistumsmesse" (PDF) (in German). butz-verlag.de. 2011. p. 20. Retrieved 25 September 2012.
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