Biography
Biography
Concert organist, pianist, composer and musicologist — with a repertoire ranging from the Renaissance to contemporary music.
Concert organist and pianist Dr Gottfried Thore Drywa studied organ and piano with Ben van Oosten, Marie-Claire Alain and Susan Landale, as well as composition and musicology with, among others, Frank Michael Beyer and Isabel Mundry in Rotterdam, Paris and Zurich. International competitions and masterclasses with Daniel Roth, Michael Radulescu, Jean Guillou, Olivier Latry and Helmut Lachenmann, among others, complemented his studies.
As a performer, he explores an extensive repertoire ranging from the Renaissance to contemporary music. His numerous concerts at home and abroad are complemented by CD and radio recordings. He also performs as an improviser alongside other instrumentalists.
Another focus of his work is the transcription of orchestral music for organ, including the symphonies and symphonic poems of Jean Sibelius, as well as works by Mozart, Liszt, Nielsen and Mendelssohn.
Gottfried Thore Drywa serves in an honorary capacity as titular organist of the Wolf organ at the Lutherkirche in Plauen. Discover the instrument →
