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 as well as the Carl Maria von Weber Scholarship at the Semperoper Dresden.
After graduating with distinction in organ literature performance and organ improvisation, Pascal Kaufmann took up the position of an church musician (a position for an A-Examen, the highest German qualification) at the Stadtkirche St. Petri and the Schlosskirche in Augustusburg in the Ore Mountains in 2018 and worked for a year as assistant organist to Samuel Kummer at the Frauenkirche in Dresden. With the founding of the Junge Philharmonie Augustusburg and the Augustusburg Music Summer, he soon created two new formats in the "town with foresight" (Stadt mit Weitsicht), which have enjoyed a steadily growing response since 2019.
Together with his brother, he forms the organ duo Markus & Pascal Kaufmann. Thanks to their creative and unconventional programme design and their artistic reputation, the brothers receive numerous concert invitations to festivals at home and abroad.
Since his youth, Pascal Kaufmann's main focus has been on improvising and transcribing large symphonic works for the "king 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 colourful transcriptions. A video of his symphonic fantasy on the "Steigerlied", commissioned by the Sächsische Staatskanzlei (Saxon State Chancellery) in 2023, has been viewed more than half a million times.
In 2024, he was awarded the Johann Walther Medal of the Sächsischer Musikrat (Saxon Music Council) for his services to the Saxon musical landscape.