Grethe Krogh

Grethe Krogh (7 November 1928 – 5 April 2018) was a Danish concert organist and professor. She began playing at age five and was educated at the Royal Danish Academy of Music. Krogh's concert debut playing the piano and organ came in 1953 and she began working as an organist firstly at Nykøbing Mors from 1954 to 1957 and then at Holmen Church from 1964 to 1969. She was appointed professor of organ playing at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in 1969 and worked there until 1990 when she became a freelance solo organist. Krogh received various awards and scholarships throughout the course of her career. She received the Tagea Brandt Rejselegat in 1972 and was appointed Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog in 1974 before being promoted to Knight First Class in 1982. Krogh was decorated with France's Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2006.

Biography On 7 November 1928, Krogh was born in Viborg, Denmark. She was the daughter of the pianist Svend Krogh Christensen, She came to know the organist Bodil Helsted and she was Helsted's substitute at the Søndre Sogns Kordegnekonto. she began working as an organist in Nykøbing Mors, where she performed the works of , Louis-Nicolas Clérambault and François Couperin. Between 1955 and 1956, Krogh studied organ under André Marchal and piano under Antoine Reboulot in Paris on a scholarship from the French state. She educated such students as Inge Bønnerup, Jens E. Christensen and Flemming Dreisig from Denmark as well as young students from foreign countries such as the United States, Krogh was on the jury of various international juries,