Christoph Keggenhoff was born in Mainz in 1957. During his high school years, he completed the C-level examination in Church Music at the Bishop’s Institute for Church Music in Mainz. He then studied Catholic Church Music at the Johannes-Gutenberg University in Mainz where he earned the A-level examination in 1985.

In the same year he accepted his first full-time position as Organist and Kantor in Bonn-Bad Godesberg. He worked in the parishes of St. Martin and St. St. Albertus Magnus where he conducted two choirs, a brass choir, and developed the children’s choir program. He also founded and directed a concert series which normally presented five concerts per year including organ concerts, chamber music, instrumentalists, and vocalists. In his churches he played outstanding organs by Klais (St. Martin, 1967, II/30) and Führer (St. Albertus Magnus, 1987, II/23). During this time he undertook additional studies in Organ solo performance at the Musikhochschule Heidelberg-Mannheim and participated in master classes with Gaston Litaize, Daniel Roth, and Wolfgang Rübsam.

In 1991 Christoph Keggenhoff moved to Speyer. At the romanesque Kaiser- und Mariendom he became responsible for several aspects of the Cathedral Music program. In the Cathedral Mr. Keggenhoff’s main work revolves around playing the organ and conducting the Schola Cantorum Saliensis. During his time in Speyer, Mr. Keggenhoff  has undertaken other musical activities.  Since 1991 he has also been a diocesan organ consultant, and since 1998 he has taught at the Bishop’s Institute for Church Music in the Diocese of Speyer.

His work outside of Speyer has included since 1992 his work with the advisory board of the „Vereinigung der Orgelsachverständigen Deutschlands“ (VOD) and since 2000 as the Chairman of the „Europäische Orgelakademie am Oberrhein.“ He frequently is invited to write reports and articles about organs and organ building for Festschriften and organ journals. He has also contributed fourteen articles to THE ORGAN ENCYCLOPEDIA to be published by Routledge/Taylor and Francis in New York.

His activities as concert organist have taken him to different regions of Germany, as well as to Belgium, England, France, Croatia, Austria, Poland, the Ukraine, and the United States. Initially his most extensive tours were three tours to the Ukraine, the last one of which included an invitation from the Goethe-Institute in Kiev. He played in, among other cities, Kiev, Charkov, Jalta (Crimean Sea), Tschernowitz, and Lemberg. In 1999, 2002 and 2004 followed tours in the United States where he has performed concerts until now in ten states, among others in Boston (Old North Church), Chicago (Fourth Presbyterian), Houston (together with the Dresdner Kreuzchor), Pittsburgh (St. Paul Cathedral), Peoria (St. Mary Cathedral), Indianapolis (Episcopal Cathedral), New York, Washington D.C. (National City Christian Church), Rutgers State University of New Jersey, and in the Basilica of the Sacred Heart at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana.

Christoph Keggenhoff has made five CDs which have appeared on the Organum Classics label.