Gerhard Grenzing completed his education as an organbuilder at the prestigious workshop of Rudolf von Beckerath in Hamburg with an honourable mention.
After broadening his experience with other European organbuilders, he decided to study organs on the Iberian Peninsula, and so, moved to Mallorca in the 1960s.
Fascinated by the originality, inventiveness, and sound possibilities that, he discovered in these very well-preserved historical instruments, he decided to make an in-depth study.of these instruments, restore them and bring them back to life.
After the first difficult years, he set up his own workshop in El Papiol, near Barcelona, in the mid-1970s. The following years were a period of constant development and slow progress, alongside some 18 workers and craftsmen (most of whom he trained himself). During that time, he restored more than 90 organs and built 140 brand new instruments over three continents, and all this as the result of constant research and an intense sense of creativity.
Gerhard Grenzing, aware that the time has come to make a logical generational change, has delegated the management of the workshop to Andreas Fuchs and Natalie Grenzing. However, Grenzing's 60 years of experience is part of the company's "know how" and is always a welcome factor in how things work.
In 1999, after several experiences in other workshops, Andreas Fuchs, already a fully-trained Master Organbuilder, graduated from the Official School of Organbuilders in Ludwigsburg (Germany), began working for the Gerhard Grenzing workshop, in the beginning, as a Voicer.
Later on, in 2006, he received a Diploma as Specialist in Organ and Harmonium Restoration in the same Official School of Organ builders.
From 2003 he directed the Restoration Team for most of the work in that area.
Since 2018 he has been Technical and Artistic Director for the Grenzing workshop regarding the building of new organs as well as restorations. His knowledge and mastery cover a wide variety of instruments from Iberian Baroque organs through French, German and Iberian Romantic organs, including pneumatic and electronic action instruments. He is well-informed with the most up-to-date developments in both new organs (some of which first appeared in organs from our workshop) as well as restored instruments.
Natalie Grenzing received a degree in Art History from the University of Barcelona as well as the Technische Universität Berlin where she also studied International Cultural Events. She was in charge of the administrative end of the company while she studied in Barcelona and has taken part in various workshops and congresses held by The International Society of Organbuilders. Since childhood the organ has been an ever-present subject in her life, and she loves it deeply.
Currently, she is in charge of the workshop's management department.
Both of them get along very well and keep each other well-informed, helping each other
out when it comes to important decisions and matters of responsibility.
