After his initial musical training in Lichtenstein/Saxony, Pascal Kaufmann decided to study at the Dresden University of Church Music in 2011 and then at the Carl Maria von Weber University of Music from 2013. During this time, he was awarded the Christoph Graupner Art Prize and the Carl Maria von Weber Scholarship at the Semperoper Dresden.
Thanks to their creative and unconventional programming and their artistic reputation, his brother and he have received numerous concert invitations to festivals in Germany and abroad as the organ duo Markus & Pascal Kaufmann.
After graduating with distinction in organ literature performance and organ improvisation, Pascal Kaufmann took up the position of an A church musician at the Stadtkirche and Schlosskirche in Augustusburg in 2018 and also worked for a year as assistant organist to Samuel Kummer at the Frauenkirche in Dresden. With the founding of the Augustusburg Youth Philharmonic Orchestra and the Augustusburg Music Summer, he soon created two new formats in the “town with foresight”, which have enjoyed a steadily growing response since 2019.
Since his youth, Pascal Kaufmann's main focus has been on improvising and transcribing large symphonic works for the “queen of instruments”, the organ. In 2020, his version of Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No. 9 “From the New World” was released on the Querstand label, which he recorded with his brother four-handed and four-footed on the Kern organ of Dresden's Frauenkirche. Another CD production followed a year later, this time on the French symphonic organ of the Schlosskirche Chemnitz with works by Smetana (“Die Moldau”), Mendelssohn (Symphony No. 4, the “Italian”) and other colorful transcriptions. His symphonic fantasy on the “Steigerlied”, commissioned by the Saxon State Chancellery in 2023, received more than half a million views.
In 2024, he was awarded the Johann Walther Medal of the Saxon Music Council for his services to the Saxon musical landscape.