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"To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make." - Truman Capote

Steffen Walther

Steffen Walther was born in 1963. He received his first organ instruction from the cathedral organist Günther Metz in Zwickau. He studied church music (organ, improvisation, harpsichord and conducting) in Dresden and Halle.

His organ studies were supplemented through courses in interpretation by Ewald Kooiman, among others. He completed his A-exam in 1986 and received first prizes (1985,1986) in improvisation competitions in Weimar and Halle.
Since 1986, Steffen Walther is the cantor and organist at the Kreuzkirche in Chemnitz, and as of 2006 at the Jakobikirche as well.

He engages in extensive concert activities at home and abroad (France, Switzerland,

the Netherlands, Finland, Norway and Belgium), and participates in numerous CD, radio and television productions. Since 1991, he has been a lecturer in concert and liturgical organ playing at the College of Church Music in Dresden. In 2015/16, Steffen Walther held a teaching assignment for improvisation at the Music College “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy” in Leipzig. In addition to his intensive choral work, he focuses on experimental projects with artists of all persuasions.