| BIOGRAPHY
Peter Kofler, born in 1979 in Bolzano, began his musical training at the “Claudio Monteverdi” conservatory there. He continued his studies in Munich, where he studied organ and church music with Harald Feller and harpsichord with Christine Schornsheim.
Kofler regularly performs under renowned conductors such as Sir Simon Rattle, Franz Welser-Möst, Bernhard 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 international music festivals and has already worked with Anne-Sophie Mutter, Lisa Batiashvili, Anna Prohaska, Michael Volle, Dmitry Sinkovsky and Gabór Tarkövi. As a soloist or chamber music partner, he has performed with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the brass section of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. He works closely with the recorder player and conductor Dorothee Oberlinger and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. As an organ soloist, he has already played at important venues such as Notre-Dame de Paris, the Lucerne Culture and Congress Center, Berlin Cathedral, the Berlin Philharmonie, the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna, the Frauenkirche Dresden and St. Michaelis in Hamburg.
Since August 2008, Kofler has been organist at the Jesuit Church of St. Michael in Munich. He was awarded the Bücher-Dieckmeyer Foundation’s prize for the promotion of church music in Bavaria. He is also the initiator and artistic director of the international organ festival “Münchner Orgelherbst” at St. Michael’s and teaches organ and choir conducting at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Munich.
From 2003 to 2014, Kofler was répétiteur and assistant to Hansjörg Albrecht at the Munich Bach Choir and directed the Munich Classical Choir from 2007 to 2010.
His artistic work is complemented by CD and radio productions (ZDF, BR, RAI, Deutsche Grammophon, Sony Classical, Querstand, Raumklang, Tudor, OehmsClassics, Solo Musica, All of Bach). The organ CD “Transkriptionen” received much praise in the press and was nominated for the “Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik”.
In February 2024, Peter Kofler completed the complete recording of all of Bach’s organ works with a total of 16 CDs. The complete cycle was recorded on the 4-manual Rieger organ in Munich’s Jesuit Church of St. Michael. The first volume was awarded the “Editor’s Choice” by the British music magazine “Gramophone”.
Peter Kofler serves as a jury member for, among others, the ARD International Music Competition, the German Music Competition, the Gasteig Cultural Circle Music Prize and the Moeck/SRP Competition London.
STATUS: August 2026