* 1959 in Moers on the Lower Rhine; organist, composer and Catholic church musician. He studied organ and composition at the Folkwang-Hochschule (Institut Duisburg), passed the A examination in church music at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln and earned the master-class diploma in organ with Franz Lehrndorfer in Munich. In 1990 he became cantor at St. Franziskus-Xaverius in Düsseldorf-Mörsenbroich; in 2018 he was also regional cantor for the Catholic city deanery of Düsseldorf. His dissertation on Oskar Gottlieb Blarr was published by Schott in 2015 as the biography “Oskar Gottlieb Blarr – Komponist und Kantor”. On the album Oskar Gottlieb Blarr and the Jesus-Passion (2018) he talks with Mirjam Wiesemann about his first encounter with Blarr as a teenager, Blarr’s work in Düsseldorf and the secret of the Jesus-Passion’s success.
Odilo Klasen
Organ / Composer / Cantor
