Kofler, Michael Martin

Michael Martin Kofler is a renowned Austrian flutist.
Born in Villach, Austria he obtained a Flute Performance degree with distinction at the Vienna Musikhochschule under Werner Tripp and Wolfgang Schulz. He continued his studies with Peter-Lukas Graf at the Basel Music Academy.

Laureate of several competitions (ARD, Brussels, Prague, etc.), the recipient of Cultural Endowment Prizes awarded by the Münchner Konzertgesellschaft and the Austrian state of Carinthia.

In 1987 Sergiu Celibidache invited him to join the Münchner Philharmoniker as Principal Flute.

Since 1983 Michael Martin Kofler has performed as a flute soloist throughout the world and has also been featured as a soloist and chamber ensemble member on various recordings for recording labels as well as radio and television. He regularly performs as a soloist with renowned orchestras such as the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields, the Australian Chamber Orchestra, the Budapest Strings, the Vienna and Munich Chamber Orchestra, and the Philharmonic and Symphony Orchestras of Munich, Prague, Moscow, Tokyo, Tel Aviv and Warsaw.
He has performed as a soloist with conductors such as James Levine, Lorin Maazel, Sir Neville Marriner, Fabio Luisi, Herbert Blomstedt, Frans Brüggen, Ton Koopman, and Jonathan Nott.

Since 1989, as a professor at the Mozarteum Salzburg Michael Martin Kofler has worked with considerable success with a solo performance master class, and has been invited to important international competitions as a jury member, as well as to teach master classes in Europe, Asia, and America.