Michael Martin Kofler

Univ.-Prof. of Flute⋅Wind, Brass & Percussion Department⋅Pre-College

Michael Martin Kofler (b. 1966 in Villach) studied flute with Werner Tripp and Wolfgang Schulz at the Vienna Musikhochschule (now the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna), graduating with distinction, and later with Peter-Lukas Graf at the Musikakademie in Basel. In 1987 he was appointed principal flute of the Munich Philharmonic by Sergiu Celibidache. Since 1989 he has maintained a busy international performance schedule, appearing in solo concerts, recitals, and chamber music.

Michael Martin Kofler has performed as a soloist with over 100 well-known orchestras, and is a regular guest of such prestigious ensembles as the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, the Australian Chamber Orchestra, the Amsterdam Sinfonietta, the Vienna, Munich, Stuttgart and Pforzheim Chamber Orchestras, The Budapest Strings, the Zagreb Soloists, as well as the Philharmonic and Symphonic Orchestras of Munich, Prague, Moscow, Tokyo, Osaka, Kobe, Mexico City, Tel Aviv, Haifa, Warsaw, Belgrade, Zagreb, Ljubljana, Istanbul, Antalya, Calgary, Toronto and many others.

As a soloist, he has had the pleasure of working with such renowned conductors 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, past and present, include the pianists Paul Badura-Skoda, Irwin Gage, Stefan Vladar, Stephan Kiefer, the harpists Sarah O'Brian, Xavier de Maistre and Regine Kofler, the clarinettist Martin Spangenberg, and string players Benjamin Schmid, Clemens and Veronika Hagen as well as the Mandelring and Mozart Quartet Salzburg. Since 2016, Michael M. Kofler has been increasingly invited to conduct various orchestras, such as the Pforzheim Chamber Orchestra, the Györ Philharmonic Orchestra (Hungary), the Sinfonietta Cracovia (Poland), the Suwon Philharmonic Orchestra (Korea).

Michael Martin Kofler was appointed Professor of Flute at the Mozarteum in 1989 and has since prepared numerous students who have gone on to achieve great success. Highly respected internationally, he is regularly invited to judge major competitions (ARD, Kobe, Prague, Cremona, Guangzhou) and to give masterclasses in Europe, Asia and the Americas.

In addition to his success at international competitions (ARD, Brussels, Prague, Bari, etc.), Michael Martin Kofler has also been awarded cultural promotion prizes by the Munich Concert Society and the Province of Carinthia, as well as the Award of Recognition from the Ministry of Education, Science and Research and the Culture Prize of his hometown, Villach.