Career
He is currently Cathedral Organist and Choirmaster of Erfurt Cathedral, the capital of the Free State of Thuringia in Germany, as well as honorary professor of organ music at the Hochschule für Musik "Franz Liszt", Weimar. He is President of the festival Thüringer Bachwochen. relating to the music of Johann Sebastian Bach who was born 1685 in Eisenach, Thuringia. The Thüringer Bachwochen festival is the biggest festival of classical music in Thuringia.
He studied organ music and church music at the Folkwang Hochschule Essen with Professor Gisbert Schneider from 1986 to 1991 passing his A Exam with distinction.
He continued his organ study from 1991 to 1994 in Paris with Professor Olivier Latry getting the "Diplôme de Concertiste" in 1994. In the same year he was appointed Cathedral Organist and Choirmaster of Erfurt Cathedral.
Silvius von Kessel is married to Christine Countess of Königsmarck and they have five children. He is a cousin of the actress Sophie von Kessel.
Silvius von Kessel: Original oder Adaptation? Eine Untersuchung an fünf Paaren Gregorianischer Gesänge gleicher Melodie bei verschiedenem Text (in: Beiträge zur Gregorianik, Heft 18, ConBrio Verlagsgesellschaft Regensburg 1994)
Die Orgeln und Glocken des Erfurter Domberges (1997)
Wachet auf - Symphonische Orgelmusik im Erfurter Dom (2001)
Orgelland Thüringen - Volume
5: Die Orgel in der Wallfahrtskirche Saint Antonius zu Worbis (2013), recording made together with Professor Michael Kapsner (Weimar).
