MFTP Music For The Planet
Guest Artist

Michael Martin Kofler

MICHAEL MARTIN KOFLER completed his studies with distinction at the Vienna Musikhochschule with Werner Tripp and Wolfgang Schulz and at the Musikakademie in Basel with Peter-Lukas Graf.

 

While still a student, age 21, in 1987 he became solo flutist of the Gustav Mahler Youth Symphony Orchestra under Claudio Abbado, and he was invited by Sergiu Celibidache to assume the same position with the Munich Philharmonic. He has won several prizes in international competitions, including the Mercadante, Prague, and ARD as well as prizes from the Munich Concert Society, Austrian state of Carinthia and Austrian Education Minister and the Culture Prize of his native city of Villach, Austria.

Michael Martin Kofler has presented many concerto, recital, and chamber music performances worldwide. He has appeared s soloist with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, the Philharmonic and Symphony Orchestras of Prague, Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, Salzburg, Linz Warsaw, and Zagreb and the Vienna, Munich, and Württemberg Chamber Orchestras, among many others.

 

Since 2016, he has conducted numerous orchestras including the Pforzheim Chamber Orchestra, Györ Philharmonic Orchestra (Hungary), Sinfonietta Cracovia (Poland), and the Suwon Philharmonic Orchetsra (Korea).

 

 

Since 1989 Michael Martin Kofler has taught as full-time professor for flute at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg. He has been invited to serve on the juries at significant competitions and gives regular masterclasses in Europe, Asia and the USA.

 

 

Mr.Kofler has made several CDs: concertos by C.P.E. Bach, Quantz,,and Mercadante ( Discover International); the piccolo concerto of Boris Papandopulo ( Classic Production Osnabrück); the Khatchaturian flute concerto ( Universität Mozarteum Salzburg), and all Mozart Quartetts as well as Michael Haydn quartet ( Mozartiana Classics)

 

 

www.michaelkofler.de