Stefan Palm

Stefan Palm was born in Aachen, Germany and gave his first organ recital at the age of eleven. At fifteen, he entered both the organ and piano programs at the Musikhochschule in Cologne where he studied with Peter Neumann and Michael Schneider. He passed concert examinations in three different instruments (piano, organ, and harpsichord), a reflection of his prodigious talent and versatility. As a stipendiary of the German National Scholarship Foundation he continued his studies at The Juilliard School in New York, earning a Master of Music degree in both organ and harpsichord performance in only one year. In addition to his education with Peter Neumann, Michael Schneider, Ulla Graf and Lionel Party, he got the finishing touches during master classes with Marie-Claire Alain, Guy Bovet, Lionel Rogg, André Isoir, Luigi Fernando Tagliavini, Malcolm Bilson, Gustav Leonhart and Itzhak Perlman. Mr. Palm has been a prizewinner in over a dozen international competitions, including Munich (ARD), Budapest (International Franz Liszt Competition), Berlin, Speyer, Nueremberg (ION), Wiesbaden (Bach), and Bonn. His performances as a soloist or accompanied by orchestras such as the Beijing Symphony Orchestra (China), the Radio Symphony Orchestra of Vienna (Austria), the Tallinn Chamber Orchestra (Estonia) and the Bochumer Symphoniker (Germany)include prominent stages as the Concert Hall of the "forbidden city" in Beijing, Kyoto Concert Hall, the cathedrals of Tokyo and Moscow, Hong Kong Cultural Center, Lincoln Center, Alice Tully Hall, Trinity Church Wall Street and St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York, La Madeleine, Paris and the Vienna Konzerthaus. In 2015 he was appointed Professor of Organ Literature at the Hochschule fuer Kirchenmusik in Stuttgart, where he now holds the position of the director.