After initial lessons with his mother, the concert pianist Ruth Drechsel-Püster, he studied at the Hochschule für Musik Köln with Roswitha Gediga-Glombitza and Pavel Gililov.
Master classes with, among others, Peter Feuchtwanger, Karl-Heinz Kämmerling and the Alban Berg Quartet complemented this education, which he completed in 1998 with the Konzertexamen.
[1] Drechsel is dedicated to the performance of 18th and 19th century piano music on original historical instruments from the Dohr Collection (Cologne).
[2] In addition to solo performances at home and abroad (including in the "Best of NRW" series) as well as radio recordings and CD productions, a further focus of his pianistic work lies in the field of chamber music, in which he performs with Christoph Lahme (harmonium) as a "liaison extraordinaire" as well as with Gernot Süßmuth (violin) and Dagmar Spengler (cello) as the "Piano Trio Cologne-Weimar".
[3] Drechsel teaches music and mathematics at the Otto-Hahn-Gymnasium in his home town Monheim am Rhein as well as piano at the Hochschule für Musik Köln.