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Irmtraud Tarr

​"Some organists can cook quite well, but I have never seen them do successful washing up afterwards."
RED PEPPER ROLLS​
INGREDIENTS
  • 3 red peppers
  • 1 onion
  • 2 cloves of garlic
  • 2 slices of stale white bread
  • A few sprigs of parsley
  • 2 Tbsp milk
  • 2 tbsp olive oil
  • 1 egg yolk
  • 5 anchovy fillets 
  • Salt, pepper
  • 2 tbsp more
  • 1 egg
  • 1 tbsp olive oil 
METHOD
  1. Bake the pepperoni in half with the skin side up at 220° for 20 minutes. Then peel off the skin.
  2. Finely chop the onion and garlic, dice the bread, chop the parsley and mix with milk, olive oil and egg whites, salt and pepper.
  3. Rinse anchovies, chop finely and add to the mixture. Fill the pepperoni halves with the mixture, dredge in flour and dredge in beaten egg.
  4. Heat the remaining olive oil in the pan and fry the pepperoni rolls until crispy.
  5. Serve hot or cold.
Irmtraud Tarr
Irmtraud Tarr
Irmtraud writes: 
I have always enjoyed every calorie and even as a child I knew that playing the organ and cooking have a lot in common. Both encourage you to take life into your own hands. Playing the organ requires concentration, just like cooking and baking. International concert tours have opened up the world's churches and kitchens to me. The tours with my husband Ed Tarr were particularly rewarding. Since his death in 2020, I have been passing on his legacy and playing as a soloist and in various ensembles (trio with horn and clarinet, duo with bandoneon and organ, brass ensembles).

Music and cooking are about life - and not the other way around. It's about who we are, where we come from and, above all, who we can become. That's why I keep organ playing and cooking until my last breath.

Prof. Dr. Irmtraud Tarr
About Irmtraud:
Irmtraud Tarr is a concert organist of international reputation and who did numerous recordings for radio broadcast and TV, for the most part on historical instruments. She in particular likes curiosities off the beaten track. Since 1980 she played as a duo together with the well-known trumpeter Edward H. Tarr

Dr Tarr works as a psychotherapist and music therapist (Ph. D., University of Hamburg 1987) in her own practice in Rheinfelden, Germany.

Irmtraud is the author of many articles and to date 33 books from her various fields of interest. Particularly worthy of note are two books on stage fright (Kreuz Verlag and Asanger Verlag), one of which has been translated into English: Performance Power (Summit Books, Tempe AZ, ISBN 1-887210-00-8); Die magische Kraft der Beachtung (Herder), in which light is shed on a fundamental human need hitherto neglected in publications; So zähmen Sie ein Stachelschwein – Vom Umgang mit schwierigen Menschen [How to Tame a Porcupine – on dealing with difficult people] (Herder) und Das Donald Duck-Prinzip – Scheitern als Chance für ein neues Leben [The Donald Duck Syndrome – failure as a chance for a new life] (Gütersloher Verlagshaus).

Since 2014, Dr Tarr is a university professor at the renowned Mozarteum University in Salzburg, where she holds the Chair of Performance Science, several awards and prizes (Silver Medal of Culturel Merit from the town of Rheinfelden (2003), from Bavaria (1992) and Czechia (1998). In 2016, she was awarded the Staufer Medal by the state of Baden-Württemberg.
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