Peter Kofler

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 works closely with the recorder player and conductor Dorothee Oberlinger and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Since August 2008, Kofler has been organist at the Jesuit Church of St. Michael in Munich. 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. 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”.