Wolfgang Kogert

The Viennese organist Wolfgang Kogert (born in 1980) received his training at the University of Music in Vienna among others from Martin Haselböck and at the University for Music in Stuttgart from Jon Laukvik. During his studies he was granted several scholarships.

Wolfgang Kogert is the winner of the first prize of the renowned International Organ Competition “Musica antiqua” 2006 at Bruges, Belgium. He is the first Austrian to win this important competition. In 2005 he attracted attention by winning the International Johann-Joseph-Fux-Organ Competition in Styria and the second prize in the International Organ Competition in Zurich.

These achievements were followed by invitations as a soloist to numerous European countries. Besides his concert activities as a soloist he regularly cooperates with orchestras such as the Tonkünstler Orchestra of Lower Austria and the Wiener Akademie for concerts at the Vienna Musikverein and the Vienna Konzerthaus. In 2006 he played the organ part in Leonard Bernstein’s “Mass” at a number of concerts as well as in a CD production with the Tonkünstler Orchestra under Kristjan Järvi.

Wolfgang Kogert was artistic director of the “Wienerwald Orgelfest” for several years and today he is one of the artistic leaders of the organ concerts in the Vienna “Hofburgkapelle”. He is organist in St. Andreas Church in Vienna.  

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