Hans-André Stamm

Hans-André Stamm (b. 1958) is a German organist and freelance composer who lives in Leverkusen, near Cologne, in Germany. Stamm was born in Leverkusen, Germany, in 1958. At the age of 7, he began study of the piano and pipe organ with Paul Wißkirchen, then organist at the Cathedral of Altenberg. At 11 years old, he began touring Europe as an organ virtuoso and recorded his first track at 13. From 1973 to 1976 he studied organ at the Conservatoire Royal de Musique in Liège with Hubert Schoonbroodt. Later he studied Catholic church music and piano pedagogy at the Robert-Schumann-Hochschule Düsseldorf. Stamm is renowned for his Bach interpretations and his two DVDs recordings of selected Bach organ works on the famous Trost organ in the year 2000 for Pioneer, which is one of the most popular Bach organ albums to be put to record. He is living in Leverkusen (near Cologne), Germany, as a freelance organ virtuoso and composer.