Artist · Organ
Wolfgang Kogert
Biography
Wolfgang Kogert
born in 1980 in Vienna, is considered as an extremely versatile performer. His repertoire ranges from the Robertsbridge Codex (1360) to the newest music.
He is an organist at the traditional Viennese Hofburg Chapel and has been teaching at the University of Mozarteum Salzburg since 2015.
In 2006, he won the International Wedstrijd Musica Antiqua in Bruges, and in 2013 he was an artist in residence at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris.
He has an intense collaboration with numerous composers, including Friedrich Cerha, Younghi Pagh-Paan, and Wolfgang Mitterer.
As a soloist, he has performed at the Palais des Beaux-Arts Bruxelles, the Stavanger Konserthus, and the Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall. He has been invited to churches such as Notre-Dame de Paris and the Freiburger Münster, and has worked with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, and the ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien.