Michel Miersch

Tonmeister Michel Miersch combines musical performance, recording practice and research in acoustics. Since beginning his studies in 2020 at the Erich Thienhaus Institute in Detmold, he has recorded music in a wide variety of settings, from remote monasteries for intimate chamber music to major concert halls such as Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie, where he recorded Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite for the NDR broadcaster. 

Before entering the field of sound engineering, he trained and worked as an organ builder at Jäger und Brommer in southern Germany from 2015 to 2020, building instruments for churches ranging from small rural communities to metropolitan Tokyo. 

A recorder player, he has performed with the Hagen Philharmonic Orchestra and appeared as a soloist on the German national broadcaster Deutschlandfunk in Bach’s Fourth Brandenburg Concerto. 

His experiences inform his research in psychoacoustics, including a conference paper presented at DAS|DAGA 2025.