Thomas Dahl was born in Tönning in northern Germany. After completing his secondary education, he went on to study church music, composition, music pedagogy, musicology and organ performance in Hamburg, Stuttgart, Paris and Chicago.

His concert career has taken him all over Europe, to the United States, Japan, Australia and Egypt. He has performed in such venues as Tokyo Cathedral (Japan), Notre-Dame de Paris (France) and St Patrick’s Cathedral, New York (USA). Mr Dahl has taught courses and seminars at conservatoires around Europe. Works of Bach and Reger, the french symphonic repertoire and improvisation are at the core of Thomas Dahl’s organ recital programmes.

In 1996 Thomas Dahl was appointed Director of Music and Principal Organist at St Peter’s, Hamburg, the oldest of the five principal churches, where he is a successor to Telemann and C. P. E. Bach. His most important duties at St Peter’s are the direction of the Hamburg Bach Choir and the St Peter’s Collegium musicum, as well as planning and execution of musical programmes for weekday, Sunday and festival services and for concerts.

After being invited to perform parts of Hanne Darboven’s Requiem in a birthday concert for the composer in 2001, Thomas has recorded the whole work on 11 CDs and has performed parts of it in various European festivals.