Didier Grassin has been appointed president of the Noack Organ Company, Inc. Fifty-five years after founding the firm, Fritz Noack has passed the company’s helm to Grassin. Together with the Noack team, they will carry on the well-established tradition for fine craftsmanship that made the firm’s reputation through the years. Fritz Noack is looking forward to his free time, which he plans to divide between exploring far away countries and voicing at the workshop.
Didier Grassin joined the Noack Organ Company, Inc. in 2011 with more than 25 years of experience in organbuilding. Trained in a variety of European workshops, he came to head the drawing office at Mander Organs, UK. From 1996, he spent several years as freelance designer, working for many major European and American firms before joining Casavant Frères as director of the tracker department. His designs can be seen in England, France, Japan, Malaysia, China, Canada, and the United States (see www.didiergrassin.com). He was vice president of the International Society of Organbuilders (ISO) from 2010 to 2014 and has served on the editorial boards of the ISO and the Institute of British Organbuilding. He holds a Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Acoustics from Southampton University, UK, and a Diplôme d’Ingénieur from Université de Compiègne, France.
