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Michael Kofler

Flute

Michael Martin Kofler was born in 1966 in Villach and completed his flute studies with distinction at the Vienna Music Academy under Werner Tripp and Wolfgang Schulz, as well as with Peter-Lukas Graf at the Music Academy in Basel.

In 1987, Sergiu Celibidache appointed him as the principal flutist of the Munich Philharmonic.

The recipient of numerous international competition awards (including ARD, Brussels, Prague, Bari, etc.), he has also been honoured with cultural promotion prizes from the Munich Concert Society and the state of Carinthia, along with a recognition award from the Austrian Ministry of Science and the cultural prize from his hometown of Villach.

Since 1983, Michael Martin Kofler has performed solo concerts, recitals, and chamber music evenings worldwide, collaborating as a soloist and chamber musician on DVD, CD, radio, and television recordings. He regularly performs as a soloist with over 100 renowned orchestras, including the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, the Australian Chamber Orchestra, the Amsterdam Sinfonietta, as well as chamber orchestras from Vienna, Munich, Stuttgart, Pforzheim, Budapest Strings, Zagreb Soloists, and symphonic orchestras from cities such as Munich, Prague, Moscow, Tokyo, Osaka, Kobe, Mexico City, Tel Aviv, Haifa, Warsaw, Belgrade, Zagreb, Ljubljana, Istanbul, Antalya, Calgary, Toronto and many more.

Among the conductors with whom he has collaborated as a soloist are notable names such as Lorin Maazel, James Levine, Tugan Sokhiev, Sir Neville Marriner, Fabio Luisi, Herbert Blomstedt, Frans Brüggen, Ton Koopman, Dimitrij Kitajenko, Jonathan Nott and Hans Graf.

His chamber music partners have included pianists such as Paul Badura-Skoda, Irwin Gage, Stefan Vladar, Stephan Kiefer, Sarah O’Brien, Xavier de Maistre, Regine Kofler, Martin Spangenberg, Benjamin Schmid and Clemens and Veronika Hagen as well as the Mandelring Quartet and the Mozart Quartet Salzburg.

Since 2016, Michael M. Kofler has increasingly been invited to conduct various orchestras including the Pforzheim Chamber Orchestra, Györ Philharmonic Orchestra, Sinfonietta Cracovia and Suwon Philharmonic Orchestra (Korea), among others.

Since 1989, he has successfully led a concert performance class at the ‘Mozarteum’ University in Salzburg as a professor and is frequently invited to serve as a jury member for prestigious competitions (ARD, Kobe, Prague, Cremona, Guangzhou) as well as to teach masterclasses across Europe, Asia and America.

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