Thilo Frank has been working at the University of Music Würzburg since 01.11.2021 as coordinator in the area of 'Innovation in University Teaching' in the third-party funded project'Digitalization, Mediation and Networking in the Teaching of International Organ Art' (DVVLIO). Since October 2020, he is also active in the subjects liturgy, hymnology, continuo, organ, registration practice, church music worship practice.

The musician, who was born in Lörrach, studied church music (A-Diplom) at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart (among others Prof. Werner Jacob) and music education with piano as his main subject (Prof. Patrick O'Byrne). Master classes followed in the field of organ with: a. o. Marie-Claire Alain, Daniel Roth, Luigi Tagliavini, Ton Koopman, Michael Radulescu, Montserrat Torrent, Wolfgang Seifen, Christoph Bossert. Choral conducting courses led him to Martin Behrmann (Berlin), Helmuth Franz (Hamburg) and Manfred Schreier (Contemporary Music, Stuttgart). In the field of choral pedagogy for children and young people, Thilo Frank supplemented his further training as a teacher of early musical education on the basis of Edwin Gordon's learning theory. He also completed a teacher training course for the "Junior Music Course" at the Yamaha Music Education School in Hamburg. He also qualified for the state support program "Singen-Bewegen-Sprechen" (SBS) of the state of Baden-Württemberg.

Thilo Frank was a freelancer in musicology at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart, an employee at the Südwestrundfunk in Stuttgart and a freelancer with the Stuttgarter Hymnus-Chorknaben (1994 - 2009). In his full-time occupation as organist and cantor he worked at the Protestant Pauluskirche in Stuttgart-West, at the Catholic church St. Georg, Stuttgart-Nord and as district cantor in Emmendingen (near Freiburg i. Brg., 1998-2003). There Thilo Frank was awarded the cultural prize of the large district town of Emmendingen in 2002. In Fellbach (Lutheran Church April 2003 to October 2021), he developed the concept of a new three-manual organ inaugurated in 2016/17 with 31 stops in Southern German Baroque style and transition to the early 19th century (organ building company Lenter GmbH). A unique feature of this organ is the romantic timbre of the dynamically controlled physharmonica. On the occasion of the new organ, Thilo Frank designed new digital video formats and founded the International Organ Days Fellbach (IOF) with the core theme "The lost southern German sound language". The organ has been featured in numerous journals and media, including the Organ Calendar 2020, with musical examples for reading "Wenn die Königin lacht" (Benno Verlag 2021). In Fellbach he built up a singing school from infant singing to youth choir (with voice training), in addition he directed the Fellbach Kantorei and the senior choir "Laudate".