Tobias Frank
studied church music, concert organ with Professor Martha Schuster, music education and elementary music pedagogy at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München. He then followed this with in-depth studies of Anglican church music and organ in England, studying with Timothy Brown and David Briggs, as well as taking part in master classes with Vincent Warnier and Jane Parker-Smith. He also received major impulses for his organ playing and his work as a church musician from cathedral organist Christian Heiß (Eichstätt, Bavaria) and Church Music Director Gerd Kötter (Munich). Following his studies, he initially served as cantor in Fürstenfeldbruck before taking over the cantor’s office at the St. Johannis Church in Neubrandenburg (Mecklenburg) in 2008. Since 2015 he has been Organist and Director of Music at the Lutheran Cathedral St. Luke’s in Munich. There, he is responsible for the magnificent Steinmeyer organ from 1932 and an unusual musical program. Organ concerts regularly take him to important churches and cathedrals at home and abroad, including Westminster Abbey, St. Paul’s Cathedral in London and Notre-Dame in Paris. He continues to impress his audience with the versatility and colorfulness of his interpretations. He received unanimous praise in the international trade press for his CD recordings of Hänssler Profil Edition and Rondeau Production. His work is rounded off by productions for the radio and his work as arranger and publisher for the publishers Bärenreiter, Carus, Bosse, and Butz.