Having won several renowned international competitions, the organist Tobias Horn (born in 1970) belongs to the leading German organists of his generation. Prizes as 2000 „L‚Europe et l‚Orgue“ in Maastricht / Liège / Aachen, 1st prize for interpretation and special prize for the best Bach interpretation (jury: Hakim, Trotter, Ghielmi, Szathmary, Fonteyn, Wolfs, Haselböck) and 2000 „Concours international Suisse de l‚Orgue“, 2nd prize (a 1st was not awarded) (jury: Laukvik, Bovet, Ablitzer, Heiniger) led to an intensive concert career: The artist regularly performs at internationally well-known festivals for organ (Nuremberg, Maastricht, Genova, Bergen, Festival Suisse de l’Orgue etc.) and played in concert on the great European organs, e.g. Laurenskerk Rotterdam, St. Jan s‚Hertogenbosch, Cathedrals in Strasbourg, Vienna, Aachen, Antwerpen, Haarlem, St. Gallen and Bergen.

Tobias Horn received his education from the very great of the organ world; among his teachers areLudger Lohmann (organ) and Jon Laukvik (harpsichord). Specializing in French Baroque and Romantic Organ Music he studied intensively with personalities such as Jean Boyer (Lyon/Lille) and Ben van Oosten (The Hague/Rotterdam), which led to extensive knowledge in the field of romantic symphonic organ literature.

His repertoire belongs to the broadest repertoires and contains all great pieces of organ literature. Alongside the complete works of Bach he regularly performes all great works of Reger, Liszt, the complete works of Vierne and Widor as well as all the great works of Dupré. In addition all important works of early music und contemporary compositions, with several premieres, belong to his repertoire.

His CD recordings with romantic organ music (e.g. Reger and Vierne) are issued at the distinguished labels Motette-Ursina and Ambiente and were praised by reviewers (e.g. „Organists‘ Review“/Roger Fisher).

Radio recordings at big European broadcast stations (SWR, WDR and ORF) testify his artistic work.

Tobias Horn’s musical activities and experiences cover a broad field: Besides performing as concert organist, he is Lied accompanist and conductor and practiced and performed nearly all the great oratorios like “St. Matthew’s” and “St. John’s Passion”, “Christmas Oratorio” and many cantatas by Bach; “Great Mass in c-minor” and “Requiem” by Mozart; “The Creation” by Haydn; “Requiem” by Brahms, Verdi, Fauré, Duruflé; “Les Béatitudes” by Franck, “Te Deum” by Dvorak and Bruckner as well as many orchestral works by Bach, Mozart, Poulenc, and Debussy.

His pedagogical experience reaches from pedagogue (2001/2002: substitute and assistant of Prof. Dr. Ludger Lohmann, organ class from 2016 at the Musikhochschule/State Conservatory Stuttgart) up to church-musical basic work with amateurs as well as masterclasses and lectures at the National Tchaikovsky Conservatory Moscow (Russia) and the State Music Academy Krakow (Poland).

Upcoming concert events in 2023/2024 include the Cathedrals of Aachen, Lucca, Tallinn, Danzig/Oliwa, Helsinki, Turku, Haarlem and Trnava as well as festivals in Germany, The Netherlands, Italy, Slowakia, Estonia, Switzerland.