Peter Kofler

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Peter Kofler (2014)

Peter Kofler (* 1979 in Bolzano ) is a South Tyrolean organist , harpsichordist and university professor.

He received his first musical training at the Claudio Monteverdi Conservatory in Bolzano. In Munich he studied organ and church music with Harald Feller and harpsichord with Christine Schornsheim .

Peter Kofler plays under well-known conductors such as Mariss Jansons , Franz Welser-Möst , Bernard Haitink , Riccardo Muti , Daniel Harding , Esa-Pekka Salonen , Giovanni Antonini and Thomas Hengelbrock . He is a founding member and harpsichordist of the baroque orchestra "L 'Accademia Giocosa".

Peter Kofler is a regular guest at major international music festivals. His chamber music partners include a. Dorothee Oberlinger , Dmitry Sinkovsky, Ramón Ortega Quero , Lisa Batiashvili , François Leleux and Gábor Tarkövi . As an organ soloist, the artist has given concerts in Notre-Dame de Paris, the Lucerne Culture and Congress Center, the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg, the Berlin Cathedral, the Berlin Philharmonic, St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna, the Frauenkirche Dresden and St. Michaelis Hamburg.

Peter Kofler has been organist at the Jesuit Church of St. Michael in Munich since August 2008 . He received the sponsorship award for the maintenance of church music in Bavaria from the Bücher-Dieckmeyer Foundation. In addition, Peter Kofler is the initiator and artistic director of the international organ festival “Münchner Orgelherbst” in St. Michael. He also works as a lecturer for “organ” and “choral conducting” at the University of Music and Theater in Munich.

Between 2003 and 2014 Peter Kofler worked as répétiteur and assistant to Hansjörg Albrecht at the Munich Bach Choir . From 2007 to 2010 he directed the Munich Classical Choir.

CD and radio productions (ZDF, BR, RAI, Deutsche Grammophon, Sony Classical, Querstand, Raumklang, Tudor, OehmsClassics, Solo Musica) round off his artistic work. His organ CD with “transcriptions” received several praise in the press and was nominated for the “German Record Critics Award”.

As Peter Kofler's new major project, the complete recording of the organ works by Johann Sebastian Bach on the organ of the Jesuit Church in St. Michael is planned. Under the name “OpusBach”, three CDs of this multi-part series have already been released in high-resolution Auro-3D technology (10.1.).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Vita on L 'Accademia Giocosa , accessed December 30, 2014.
  2. ↑ Bayerischer Rundfunk: Interview with Elgin Heuerding ( memento from January 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 30, 2014.
  3. ^ University of Music and Performing Arts Munich: Church Music , accessed on December 30, 2014.
  4. ↑ Home: Opus Bach. Retrieved November 18, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Kofler, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian organist and harpsichordist
DATE OF BIRTH 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Bolzano