Education
He studied at the Hochschule für Musik Frankfurt, finishing in 1992 with top honors as a church musician and graduating in 1993 as a recital organist.
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Dan Zerfass
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Career
Born in Simmern, Zerfaß was a student of Regional cantor Franz Leinhäuser in Oberwesel. He took master classes with Daniel Roth, Wolfgang Rübsam and Guy Bovet (organ), Egidius Doll, Peter Planyavsky and Theo Brandmüller (organ improvisation) and Günther Ludwig (piano). In 1989, Dan Zerfaß became cantor at Saint Albert in Frankfurt and in 1996 the regional cantor at Saint Bonifatius in Bad Nauheim.
Since 1999, he has been the cantor at the cathedral Saint Peter in Worms.
From 1993 to 1997 he taught liturgical organ playing at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe and is supervising an organ literature class at the faculty of music of Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz. He is also as an organ expert of the Diocese of Mainz and works in the artistic direction of the Internationale Orgelfestwochen (International organ weeks) of the festival Kultursommer Rheinland-Pfalz (Cultural Summer of Rhineland-Palatinate).
As a composer, he participated in the project Mainzer Bistumsmesse (Mass of the Diocese of Mainz), a collaboration of six regional cantors to create a mass in German for choir, a high voice (children"s choir or soprano) and organization He composed Herr, erbarme dich, Nicolo Sokoli Ehre science Gott, Thomas Gabriel Ich glaube an Gott, Andreas Boltz Gottheit tief verborgen, Ralf Stiewe Heilig, Ruben J. Sturm Lamm Gottes.
He recorded the complete organ works by Robert Schumann and works by Petr Eben, among others
